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In January, the New York theater will host a mini-festival featuring the works of "It Was Just an Accident" director Jafar Panahi and his mentor, Abbas Kiarostami — the only two Iranian filmmakers to ...

Ahmad Kiarostami visits Asia Society to present his father Abbas's famous Koker Trilogy as part of our ongoing classics series Films to See Before You Die. Abbas Kiarostami first came to international ...

For decades now, Iranian cinema has regularly been making news. This year, the Palme d’Or at Cannes went to Jafar Panahi’s “It Was Just an Accident,” and there’s little doubt the film will secure at ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, whose 1997 film “Taste of Cherry” won the prestigious Palme d’Or and who kept working despite government resistance, died Monday. He was 76. Iran ...

Thomas Erdbrink contributed reporting from Tehran. Abbas Kiarostami, often hailed as Iran s greatest filmmaker, whose searching, parablelike dramas of ordinary people and their problems reflected a ...

Distributing films by Todd Haynes, Guy Maddin, Abbas Kiarostami, Laura Poitras, Olivier Assayas, and even Jacques Demy, Zeitgeist Film has been one of the most vital caretakers of independent and ...

The camera likes to linger on the subjects of this warm, melancholy drama from Iranian auteur Abbas Kiarostami: a young call girl named Akiko, her fiancé, and an elderly scholar she’s sent to see one ...

The final film from Abbas Kiarostami is a collection of 24 seemingly still images, with each segment running roughly 4.5 minutes and featuring small random flurries of animation. It works in practice.

Special Plaque of Lebanese Ministry of Culture and Art, Lebanon 2000 The Youth Prize of Future Cinema for The Wind Will Carry Us at the 56th Venice International Film Festival, Italy 1999 FIPRESCI ...