In an era when headlines reduce Iran to flashpoints of conflict and protest, a quietly defiant film made under extraordinary conditions is offering a...

Events This Week in New Jersey from November 26 to December 3, 2024  originally published: 11/26/2024 Here is a look at upcoming events taking place from November 26 to December 3, 2024 along with our featured listings. New Jersey Stage offers previews of events throughout the Garden State as well as select shows in New York City and Philadelphia areas. Click on the title to go to the full preview. Jump to Featured Events, Music, Theatre,...

In an era when headlines reduce Iran to flashpoints of conflict and protest, a quietly defiant film made under extraordinary conditions is offering a far more intimate and human portrait. The Friend’s House is Here, a feature created in secrecy by filmmakers Hossein Keshavarz and Maryam Ataei, arrives at the Sundance Film Festival carrying not just artistic ambition, but the weight of lived risk, friendship, and creative resistance. For New Jersey audiences in particular, the film’s journey resonates deeply, as one of its creators traces his formative years back to Middlesex County before returning, again and again, to a homeland shaped by contradiction and courage. The film was shot last summer in Tehran under circumstances that...