Cyrus Nowrasteh Articles

2009 Los Angeles Film Festival Awards 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival: June 18-28   Sam Fleischner and Ben Chace's debut feature Wah do dem (top) follows a man whose girlfriend has dumped him right before he goes off on a Caribbean cruise. Juan Carlos Rulfo and Carlos Hagerman's Those Who Remain (middle) portrays the effects of Mexican emigration to the United States on those family [...]

Shohreh Aghdashloo, Mozhan Marnò in The Stoning of Soraya M. (top); Martin Strel in Big River Man (bottom) Los Angeles Film Festival 2009 – Saturday, June 20, highlights: Starring Academy Award-nominee Shohreh Aghdashloo, Jim Caviezel, and Mozhan Marnò, Cyrus Nowrasteh's The Stoning of Soraya M. (Mann Festival Theater, 3:30 pm) revolves around the true story of a woman who suffers a nasty fate following an [...]