Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The big winner at the Stockholm International Film Festival 2022 was Holy Spider, directed by Swedish-Danish-Iranian Ali Abbasi.

A lurid and purposefully nasty piece of work, writer-director Ali Abbasi’s “Holy Spider” tells the true story of Saeed Hanaei, a construction worker and decorated veteran of the Iran-Iraq war who in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CANNES, FRANCE - MAY 23: Director Ali Abbasi attend the photocall for "Holy Spider" during the 75th annual Cannes film festival at ...

Belgian filmmaker Lukas Dhont’s Close, Danish director Ali Abbasi’s Holy Spider and Swedish director Ruben Ôstlund’s Triangle Of Sadness lead the nominations for the 35th European Film Awards, which ...

An Academy Award-winning auteur’s return to his homeland, a thriller that has caused boundary-crossing controversy and the tale of a wandering donkey are among this season’s top players in the field.

On April 8, 2002, Saeed Hanaei was executed for the murders of 16 women between 2000 and 2001 in the Iranian city of Mashhad. The media dubbed him the “Spider Killer” for the way he lured his victims ...

Something evil lurks in the holy city of Mashhad in Iran. As Muslim pilgrims flock to visit the city’s shrines, grisly slayings of female sex workers strangled with their own hijabs are occurring in ...

A UK poster and new trailer have been released for Holy Spider. The film will be released theatrically in the UK and Ireland on 20 January 2023 and will stream exclusively on MUBI from 10 March 2023.

Is murdering prostitutes in modern-day Iran the work of God? It is if you are the madman and religious fanatic carrying out a reign of serial-killer terror in the ...

The big winner at the Stockholm International Film Festival 2022 was Holy Spider, directed by Swedish-Danish-Iranian Ali Abbasi. The film won the Bronze Horse for Best Film, while lead actor Mehdi ...

“Triangle of Sadness,” directed by Ruben Östlund, and “Holy Spider,” directed by Ali Abbasi, lead the European Film Awards nominations in major categories, alongside “Close,” directed by Lukas Dhont.

The three acclaimed titles earned four nominations each, while French filmmaker Alice Diop scored a best director nod for her fictional debut 'Saint Omer.' By Patrick Brzeski Asia Bureau Chief Each of ...