Iranian exile Abdolreza Kahani’s “Mortician” took top honors at this year’s Edinburgh Film Festival, taking the Sean Connery ...

Abdolreza Kahani’s Mortician has won the Sean Connery Prize for Feature Filmmaking Excellence, the top prize at the Edinburgh ...

Snowbound exteriors and coolly detached execution belie the heat of the political anger fuelling Mortician, a Canada-set ...

Iranian filmmaker Abdolreza Kahani’s Canada-set Mortician has scooped the £50,000 Sean Connery prize for feature filmmaking ...

Canada-based Iranian filmmaker Abdolreza Kahani takes home the £50,000 Sean Connery Prize for Feature Filmmaking Excellence for Mortician, a tragicomic drama he shot on his iPhone.

A dour, middle-aged Iranian mortician forms a bond with a rebellious young pop star wanted by the Iranian regime in this ...

EXCLUSIVE: Iranian director Abdolreza Kahani (Twenty), whose films have played at Karlovy Vary, Thessaloniki and Sao Paolo film festivals, is making his English-language debut with psychological ...

Paul Ridd on his vision for the Edinburgh Film Festival, its competition strategy, integration with the Fringe, and the ...

TEHRAN, July 6 (MNA) -- “Twenty”, a tragi-comic film by Iranian director Abdolreza Kahani was screened Sunday in the competition section of the 44th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the ...

Karlovy Vary wrapped its 44th edition Saturday with Tehran filmmaker Abdolreza Kahani winning a special jury prize for "Twenty," a look at life in a down-on-its-luck Iranian banquet hall.

A Shrine (dir. Abdolreza Kahani, Canada, Iran, France) A tired mechanic builds a religious shrine out of imported wood and takes the road, in this subversive DIY film offering an offbeat window ...

EXCLUSIVE: Iranian director Abdolreza Kahani (Twenty), whose films have played at Karlovy Vary, Thessaloniki and Sao Paolo film festivals, is making his English-language debut with psychological ...