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My Worst Enemy review – Iranian exile recreates torture and interrogation in study of regime power

Mehran Tamadon’s film about autocracy in Iran could have revealed more about methods of control, despite a star turn from Zar Amir Ebrahimi

The Guardian - UK · Jul 28, 2025

Shayda review – an exciting new voice in Australian cinema has arrived

Opening this year’s Melbourne international film festival, the Iranian-Australian director’s debut follows an Iranian mother and daughter as they seek refuge in an Australian women’s shelter

The Guardian - AU · Aug 4, 2023

Melbourne international film festival 2023: 10 things to see and do, from BlackBerry to new Kelly Reichardt

Plus Josh O’Connor as a grumpy archaeologist, Hugo Weaving as a scabby hermit, and a queer noir – all part of Miff’s 71st edition

The Guardian - AU · Jul 11, 2023

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“Iranian women have always been brave”: How actress Zar Amir Ebrahimi is fighting back

Having won Best Actress at Cannes for her role in Holy Spider, Iranian star Zar Amir Ebrahimi should be on top of the world. But she’s troubled by the events in her country of birth: about which she writes here

Evening Standard · Jan 24, 2023

Holy Spider – prurient Iranian serial killer drama

Based on the real-life case of a man who murdered 16 women, Ali Abbasi’s tense film feels at once timely and dehumanising

The Guardian - UK · Jan 21, 2023

Zar Amir Ebrahimi on fleeing Iran and her Cannes comeback: ‘If you lose everything, it’s easier to rise up’

Forced to leave Iran after an intimate video of her was leaked, Ebrahimi has rebuilt her career. Her latest film, for which she won best actress at Cannes, celebrates the defiance of women in her home country

The Guardian - UK · Jan 20, 2023

A man killed women he deemed 'immoral' — an Iranian film fictionalizes the story

The real-life "Spider Killer" murdered 16 women in Iran between 2000 and 2001. The case inspired Holy Spider, which has resonated abroad during a time of amplified state violence in Iran.

WEKU · Jan 4, 2023

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Nazanin Boniadi spotlights Iranian women at academy event

“Rings of Power” star Nazanin Boniadi has delivered a powerful plea to prominent Hollywood creatives to support female protesters in Iran at an event Wednesday afternoon in Los Angeles

The Independent UK · Nov 17, 2022

Iranian serial killer film "Holy Spider"

"To show the underbelly of a violent place, you can't do it with a feather pen," the filmmaker tells Salon

Salon · Oct 28, 2022

Review: Holy Spider

Death on wheels.

Reason · Oct 28, 2022

An exiled actress stars in a piercing portrait of Iran

Ninety-nine lashes and a prison sentence awaited Zar Amir Ebrahimi in 2008 when she decided to flee Iran

The Independent UK · Oct 25, 2022

Holy Spider at the London Film Festival movie review: Compelling but ultimately too thin

Holy Spider wants to tell a bigger story but gets too bogged down in the trappings of the serial killer genre

Evening Standard · Oct 10, 2022

Film show: Iranian serial killer thriller ‘Holy Spider’ weaves a chilling web

Director Ali Abasi paints an unforgiving picture of institutional misogyny, corruption and the power of the court of public opinion in Iran, as he revisits a series of murders in the holy city of Mashhad. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, where Zar Amir Ebrahimi won the award…

France 24 · Jul 13, 2022

Iranian Zar Amir Ebrahimi wins best actress at Cannes

Ebrahimi won for Holy Spider in which she plays a journalist trying to solve serial murders of prostitutes in Mashhad.

Al Jazeera · May 29, 2022

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Asharq Al-Awsat · May 29, 2022

‘Triangle of Sadness’ Wins Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Fest

Swedish director Ruben Ostlund’s class warfare comedy “Triangle of Sadness” won the Palme d’Or at the 75th Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, giving Ostlund one of cinema’s most prestigious prizes for the second time. Ostlund, whose art-world send-up “The Square” took the Palme in 2017, pulled off the rare feat…

WEKU · May 29, 2022

'Triangle of Sadness' wins Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Fest

Swedish director Ruben Ostlund's class warfare comedy "Triangle of Sadness" won the Palme d'Or at the 75th Cannes Film Festival, giving Ostlund the prize for the second time.

The Hindu · May 29, 2022

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