Mohammad Abdi
Film critic
Mohammad Abdi is an Iranian journalist and film critic.
Film critic
Mohammad Abdi is an Iranian journalist and film critic.
Iran’s Fajr Film Festival went ahead this year as planned. But it did so in a country still reeling from bloodshed, and the red carpets beneath its guests carried a symbolic weight that many in the film community found difficult to ignore.
Looking back at Iranian films in 2025, one fact is hard to miss: it was underground cinema—not the country’s officially sanctioned productions—that defined the year internationally.
