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Writer-director Saeed Roustaee ('Leila's Brothers') returns to Cannes competition with a tale of motherhood, mourning and ...
Selling a descent from stress into a state of devastation that can never be shed (only briefly reprised) is the formidable ...
Iranian filmmaker Saeed Roustaee's latest movie Woman and Child got an 10-minute ovation after it premiered at the Cannes ...
In Saeed Roustaee's "Woman and Son," an initially low-key drama that takes a shattering and tragic, pain is an ...
It involves little more scandalous than betting on a spinning top – Roustaee makes the symbolic most of its vertiginous ...
Iranian filmmaker Saeed Roustaee said on Friday that he was careful in how he shot his Cannes Film Festival entry "Woman and ...
Woman and Child’ in running for Cannes’ top prize One of two films from Iran competing in 22-strong pool Director says he ...
A state-approved Iranian movie featuring women constantly in headscarves premiered at the Cannes film festival on Thursday, ...
In Saeed Roustayi’s Woman and Child, a carefully crafted and endlessly gripping drama that follows a Tehran family’s slow ...
Saeed Roustaee’s 'Woman and Child' is a setback for the gifted Iranian director, who imagines a mother whose choices make ...
Bi Gan’s Resurrection received a mix of scores on Screen International’s Cannes Jury Grid, for an overall average of 2.4.