Author: Saeed Kamali Dehghan

The actor Cate Blanchett is to lead a new grant scheme for refugee film-makers, offering up to €100,000 (£84,000) each to five people to create short works focusing on the experiences of displaced people. The initiative will launch as a pilot scheme but is planned to evolve into a long-term project, headed by Blanchett, a…

In the first weeks of the pandemic, Maryam Tafakory set herself the task of watching 417 films made in post-revolution Iran. She soon found something curious: the recurring use of bags. Objects such as bags are often deployed by film-makers as substitutes for actual physical contact between a man and a woman, in a country…