Filmmaker Omid Iranikhah says his short film “Farsi With Maman” is intensely personal — but not autobiographical. The film, ...

Director Matthew Rankin offers a cultural mashup where Persian and French are the official languages of Canada, and a local Tim Hortons serves Iranian delicacies. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief ...

“Universal Language” takes place in an imaginary, barely conceivable Canada that has taken in so many Iranian immigrants that road signs and graffiti are in Farsi, even in remote Winnipeg. At Tim ...

A Farsi-language satellite TV channel based in the United Kingdom says it’s moving its operations to Washington after British authorities cited threats to the broadcaster’s staff from agents of the ...

Hassan Nazer's drama won the audience award in Edinburgh. By Alex Ritman U.K. Correspondent The British Academy has selected Winners, the Farsi-language drama from British-Iranian writer/director ...

There’s a notion in the film industry that comedies don’t travel. Jokes have a regional audience, and humor gets lost in translation, the thinking goes. But director Matthew Rankin thinks more of ...

Four hundred and fifty million. That’s the number of times social media users across the globe engaged with Farsi-languge digital content generated by Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs last year.

Language learning has played a big role in Afsaneh’s life. As an Iranian, she grew up speaking Farsi. As an adult, she became an English teacher, and on arrival in Belgrade as a refugee in 2018 she ...

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