The Latest Breaking News from Zar Amir Ebrahimi

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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

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

Death on wheels.

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

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

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…

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

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…