Writer-director Saeed Roustaee ('Leila's Brothers') returns to Cannes competition with a tale of motherhood, mourning and vengeance set in contemporary Tehran.

The Nile River, the world's longest river, is Egypt's beating heart as it has served as a lifeline for Egyptians since the ...

By David Rooney Chief Film Critic Maadi plays Iman, who fled Tehran with his family and is seeking asylum in the far north of Sweden. The reasons for that abrupt flight are revealed only later ...

A Separation' star Payman Maadi gives another riveting, on-edge performance in this promise-fulfilling second feature from Swedish-Iranian helmer Milad Alami. It begins in a frenzied, scuffling ...

Peyman Maadi (پیمان معادی) was born in 1970 in New York City to an Iranian couple. His father was a lawyer. Peyman Maadi's family moved back to Iran when he was 5 years old. He graduated ...

From a stroll down tree-lined boulevards to some of the city's best gelato, Maadi has a lot to offer Cairo is known to be one of the most stressed-out cities, thanks in part to the constant ...