Writer-director Saeed Roustaee ('Leila's Brothers') returns to Cannes competition with a tale of motherhood, mourning and ...

Iranian filmmaker Saeed Roustaee's latest movie Woman and Child got an 10-minute ovation after it premiered at the Cannes ...

Selling a descent from stress into a state of devastation that can never be shed (only briefly reprised) is the formidable ...

In Saeed Roustaee's "Woman and Son," an initially low-key drama that takes a shattering and tragic, pain is an ...

CANNES, France (Reuters) -Iranian filmmaker Saeed Roustaee said on Friday that he was careful in how he shot his Cannes Film ...

Saeed Roustaee’s 'Woman and Child' is a setback for the gifted Iranian director, who imagines a mother whose choices make ...

In Saeed Roustayi’s Woman and Child, a carefully crafted and endlessly gripping drama that follows a Tehran family’s slow ...

It involves little more scandalous than betting on a spinning top – Roustaee makes the symbolic most of its vertiginous ...

Roustayi has previously defied his country's authorities. His last film in Cannes — "Leila's Brothers" in 2022 — landed him a ...

They say that when one door closes, another door opens. This very much applies to Iranian cinema, and the one-in, one-out approach that the country's government seems to take when imprisoning its ...

Payman Maadi, left, and Parinaz Izadyar pose for photographers at the photo call for the film 'Woman and Child' at the 78th ...