Tag: Saeed Roustayi
2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10 – Saeed Roustayi’s ‘Woman and Child’
Iranian filmmaker Saeed Roustaee (also spelled Saeed Roustayi - I know its annoying) became part of the Cannes family when he gave us the...
Woman and Child | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
All the Regime Allows: Roustaee Finds a Woman Scorned
If there were ever an equivalent to the Hollywood ‘woman’s film’ genre in Iranian cinema it...
Live From Cannes!!! Meet the Jury For Our 2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel
IONCINEMA.com has been gauging the pulse of the Palme d’Or competition since 2011. We first jumped into the water when trades such as Screen...
2025 Cannes Film Festival: Lynne Ramsay & Saeed Roustayi Added to Palme d’Or Competition – Ethan Coen in Midnight
The competition section films vying for the Palme d'Or will finally have moved from the initial selection of nineteen to twenty-one with Thierry Frémaux...
2022 Cannes Coverage Wrap-Up: Competition
Armageddon Time - James Gray
Boy from Heaven - Tarik Saleh
Broker - Hirokazu Kore-eda
Frère et sœur - Arnaud Desplechin
Close - Lukas...
2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9 – Saeed Roustayi’s Leila’s Brothers
One of the two Iranian entries at this year's Cannes competition, this is Saeed Roustayi's first time. Starring Taraneh Alidoosti, Saeed Poursamimi, Navid Mohammadzadeh,...
Leila’s Brothers | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review
How to Beat the High Cost of Living: Roustayi Ponders Poverty in Familial Melodrama
“Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it...
2022 Cannes: Abbasi, Dhont, Reichardt, Mungiu & Claire Denis Among 18 Titles Vying for Palme d’Or
The likes of first-time comp contenders Kelly Reichardt, Ali Abbasi and Lucas Dhont are joining former Palme d'Or winners Ruben Östlund, Kore-eda Hirokazu, the...
The Conversation: 10 Most Anticipated Films – Venice 2019
There’s much to be excited for in the upcoming 2019 Venice Film Festival, the 76th edition of the world’s oldest major film festival. Of...
