Our film review for the 2D animation short 'Like Friend, Like Deer' by the Iranian director Malek Eghbali, presented at the 2025 Animafest Zagreb.

Social commitment and its lack feature in the Iranian animation short The Bystander by Sheyda Kashi.

BAFTA-awarded filmmaker Maryam Mohajer presents her animation short Red Dress. No Straps at Zippy Frames.

Iranian animator Salman Arbaboon prepares his philosophical, hand-drawn short Prey.

Shadab Shayegan presents a case of escalating violence sturdily directed in Are You Kidding Me?

The Iranian stop-motion film Mr. Deer by Mojtaba Mousavi has been one of the festival highlights of 2018. Here's more info and the artbook of the film.

A colorful and flowy blend of sounds, images, and memories. Watch the music video Negaram by Shabab Shayegan and Farhad Bazyan.

Ali Soozandeh's rotoscoped Iranian drama about the lives of 4 people in modern-day Tehran hits all the right notes in character development within a glib portrait of internalized, strict moral codes.

Via the music video of If You Go Away by Ashkan Rahgozar.

Reza Riahi reminds us of the grown-up business that the little ones are not supposed to know -but they do. Watch Allo...Chloé ?

It comes from Iran. The new animation feature in production The Last Fiction by Hoorakhsh Studios promises the retelling of an epic battle.