Image Source: Maryam Tafakory's Website There is power in the scenes prevalent in Iranian cinema of women taking sedatives and attempting to end their lives with the medication that has been prescribed to them. To rephrase, Maryam Tafakory sees the images of women whose agency has been taken away from them and acknowledges the quiet part in her 2025 short film Daria's Night Flowers. The scenes find themselves blended together, spoken over, and yet the truth of them stays persistent. She...

Image Credit: Tribeca Film Festival You’re 15, you’re too young to drive, and you can’t afford to take public transit everywhere that you...

Image Credit: Tribeca Film Festival I finished watching Honeyjoon (2025) in a hotel room at 4 pm through Tribeca’s online press screener...