Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa is a filmmaker and film professor at Columbia College Chicago. Her book Abbas Kiarostami, cowritten with Jonathan Rosenbaum, was published by the University of Illinois Press in 2003.

Oct 7, 2024 — The winner of the Grand Prix in Cannes is a portrait of three women in Mumbai—and at a crossroads in their lives.

Sep 13, 2023 — Early reviewers find that, while the master of animation’s twelfth feature may be hard to follow, it’s impossible to resist.

Jun 12, 2023 — The Chicago Film Society and the San Francisco Cinematheque will screen films by the artist who became an indelible face of the avant-garde.

The writer and director of All We Imagine as Light shares why Sans Soleil and Arabian Nights are gifts that keep on giving, talks about Aki Kaurismäki’s “fun and audacious” Leningrad Cowboys films, and praises Louis Malle’s Phantom India as...

The father-daughter team behind the new film Wildcat talk about their love of Children of Paradise, the films of Wim Wenders, and the influence of Picnic at Hanging Rock and An Angel at My Table.

Sep 21, 2023 — Like the nuclear family, the internet shapes us whether or not we choose to relate to it. In 38, the final short in a triptych by filmmakers Micaela Durand and Daniel Chew, a woman approaching middle age becomes obsessed with...

Jul 10, 2016 — The author, a filmmaker and film professor who cowrote a book on Abbas Kiarostami, remembers the late Iranian director.

Nov 1, 2023 — Sandra Hüller meets Joachim Trier, Hayao Miyazaki predicts the future, and MoMA showcases Iranian cinema.