Iranian Filmmaker Reza Dormishian Faces Arrest Order as IRGC Seeks Asset Seizure
The filmmaker has been charged with “propaganda against the system”, with the case currently being handled by Branch 7 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court. Source: AMP
‘An orgiastic pandemonium’: Elvira Notari, the ‘low-life cinema’ pioneer erased by fascism
Italy’s first female director made 60 features depicting the gritty squalor of early 20th-century Naples. Most were lost to Mussolini’s censorship and she died in obscurity – but now a new documentary gives her a voice again Source: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/apr/06/elvira-notari-beyond-silence-first-female-italian-film-director-fascism-mussolini-censorship
Bittersweet Iraqi film The President’s Cake brings hope as war rages in the Middle East
When Iraqi filmmaker Hasan Hadi was in primary school, his teacher made him fetch flowers to mark the birthday of then-President Saddam Hussein. Hadi still has a photo of himself holding that bouquet. Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-31/the-presidents-cake-movie-hasan-hadi-interview/106501300