Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In “Leila’s Brothers,” a once proud, now pathetic Persian family teeters on the brink of ruin, held together by the assertive ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the best crime movies, and perhaps one of the best movies period, to come out in recent years was Iranian writer-director ...

Global arthouse movie streamer, producer and distributor MUBI has acquired all Turkish rights to Iranian director Saeed Roustaee’s timely Cannes title “Leila’s Brothers.” A female empowerment drama ...

They all hate one another, Leila (the magnificent Taraneh Alidoosti) tells her brother Alireza (Navid Mohammad Zadeh) when he returns to the family home. It is a rare visit; he works in an industrial ...

Iranian actress Taraneh Alidoosti, who was at the Cannes Film Festival this year with Competition Title Leila’s Brothers, has posted an image of herself on social media without her headscarf in ...

Just hours before this year’s Cannes Palme d’Or prize announcement, the International Federation of Film Critics (Fipresci) has awarded “Leila’s Brothers” its International Critics’ Prize for best ...

Following the 2022 festival screening of the film, which was later blocked in Iran for showing in Cannes "without authorization," Roustayi and his producer Javad Noruzbegi face a six-month sentence ...

The Islamic Revolutionary Court said the director of “Leila’s Brothers,” Saeed Roustaee, and the film’s other producer had been “participating in the opposition’s propaganda.” By Christopher Kuo A ...

Saeed Roustaee makes his Cannes debut in competition with a long, complicated drama about five siblings trying to claw their way out of poverty in Tehran. In “Leila’s Brothers,” a once proud, now ...

Iranian writer-director Saeed Roustaee's third feature follows a family struggling to stay afloat in a society marred by corruption and economic strife. By Jordan Mintzer One of the best crime movies, ...