Maryam Keshavarz's stunning, sensual Circumstance has already been denounced, sight unseen, by the Iranian government, which got wind of it after the movie won the Audience Award at this year's ...

Maryam Keshavarz can’t go home again. The Iranian-American director of “Circumstance,” an assured drama about two young women grappling with sexuality and repression in Iran, acknowledges that she ...

Filmmaker Maryam Keshavarz's name is instantly recognizable as Iranian. Her accent? Totally New York-New Jersey, where Keshavarz was born and raised. Keshavarz, though, would often return to Iran - ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Family and love. Unrated. 1 hour, 47 minutes. At the Esquire. In Iran, they like to watch. Or so we gather from the constant presence of surveillance cameras ...

More stories by Nigel M. Why She’s On Our Radar: Because in a great year at Sundance, her feature narrative directorial debut “Circumstance” beat out a crop of impressive films (including “Martha ...

While many will probably refer to 'Circumstance' in shorthand as 'the Iranian lesbian movie,' part of what makes the film so powerful is its portrayal of modern-day Iran After Iranian-American ...

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"Circumstance" is an amazingly accomplished and complex first feature from Iranian-American writer-director Maryam Keshavarz. By James Greenberg PARK CITY — (U.S. Dramatic Competition) — Drawing on ...

While many will probably refer to Circumstance in shorthand as the Iranian lesbian movie, part of what makes the film so powerful is its portrayal of modern-day Iran as a country so oppressive that ...