Abdolreza Kahani’s Mortician has won the Sean Connery Prize for Feature Filmmaking Excellence, the top prize at the Edinburgh ...

Winner of the top prize at the Edinburgh Film Festival, Abdolreza Kahani's resourceful no-budget feature blends droll odd-couple comedy with severe tragedy. A prolific, iconoclastic artist who has ...

Iranian exile Abdolreza Kahani’s “Mortician” took top honors at this year’s Edinburgh Film Festival, taking the Sean Connery ...

Iranian filmmaker Abdolreza Kahani’s Canada-set Mortician has scooped the £50,000 Sean Connery prize for feature filmmaking ...

Canada-based Iranian filmmaker Abdolreza Kahani takes home the £50,000 Sean Connery Prize for Feature Filmmaking Excellence for Mortician, a tragicomic drama he shot on his iPhone.

A dour, middle-aged Iranian mortician forms a bond with a rebellious young pop star wanted by the Iranian regime in this ...

Munya Chawawa, whose fame came via internet virality, has lambasted the British TV industry for “ignoring evolution” as the ...

Mascha Schilinski’s buzzy Cannes competition title Sound Of Falling has been selected as Germany’s entry for the Best ...

Productions, Jack Oliver, is leaving the European pay-TV giant. Deadline can reveal he will leave at the end of the month ...

James Harding has talked BBC independence, anti-semitism & the Conservative government at the Edinburgh TV Festival ...

Visit Films has acquired worldwide sales rights to “Mortician,” the latest feature from Iranian filmmaker Abdolreza Kahani which is set to world premiere in competition at the 2025 Edinburgh ...

Iranian filmmaker Abdolreza Kahani’s ‘Mortician,’ a stripped-back indie shot solo in exile, is boarded by Visit Films ahead of its Edinburgh premiere.