He is scheduled to hold a masterclass at the festival, Hoorakhsh, Rahgozar’s animation studio in Tehran, has announced. He will discuss the topic “How Hoorakhsh Studio started from Iran and expanded ...

Juliet and the King (2025) Film Review from the 29th Annual Fantasia Film Festival, a movie written and directed by Ashkan Rahgozar and starring Hamed Behdad, Ghazal Shakeri, Nasrolah Medghalchi, ...

Rahgozar along with jury president Hefang Wei from France and Indian writer Kalp Sanghvi will select the winners of the Satoshi Kon Award for Excellence in Animation. The Iranian films “Jebeer” ...

Iran has been badly hit by the coronavirus — it has over 60,000 confirmed cases — but the government has yet to implement a general lockdown. On March 1, when Rahgozar decided to send most of ...

A couple of years ago, The Last Fiction became the first Iranian animated feature to qualify for an Oscar. Having successfully made its mark overseas, the studio behind the film, Tehran’s Hoorakhsh ...