Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. No one has the time of their lives in "Desert Dancer," a fact-based drama in which all the dancing is dirty — at least according ...

Frieda Pinto and Reece Ritchie star in the first trailer for Relativity Media’s DESERT DANCER. See this film when it’s released in theaters this Spring. Set in Iran, this powerful and unbelievable ...

Relativity Studios has released a new, behind-the-scenes featurette for their upcoming film DESERT DANCER. The movie stars Freida Pinto, Reece Ritchie, Tom Cullen, Nazanin Boniadi and Makram J. Khoury ...

"Dancing is forbidden. So if you're going to do it, you do it somewhere safe." Despite what Footloose may have you believe, it's pretty ridiculous to live in a place in the United States where dancing ...

Relativity Media hosted a screening of Desert Dancer Tuesday night at the Museum of Modern Art. Based on true events, Desert Dancer is the story of how Iranian dancer Afshin Gaffarian was abused and ...

Christina Radish is the Senior Entertainment Reporter at Collider. Having worked at Collider for over a decade, her primary focus is on film and television interviews with talent both in front of and ...

As I say in my video review above, Richard Raymond’s directorial debut Desert Dancer is an inspiring true story set in the extremely dangerous period around the 2009 Iran presidential election, when a ...

Iranian Afshin Ghaffarian dreams of becoming a dancer from a young age. He hacks into YouTube and watches dancers like Michael Jackson and Rudolf Nureyef. But dancing is illegal in the Islamic ...

The throw-pillow maxim “Dance like no one’s watching” assumes that, were anyone around, they wouldn’t be risking their lives observing a dance performance forbidden by the government. And not just ...

Richard Raymond's drama tells the true-life story of dancer Afshin Ghaffarian, who pursued his dreams of artistic expression despite persecution by the Iranian government By THR Staff Desert Dancer ...

“So you are an artist,” an Iranian member of the Basij, the country’s paramilitary morality police, hisses at the hero of “Desert Dancer,” who is about to be punished. “Beat him … artistically!” You ...