This is the movie’s first public premiere in Iran. The screening will be followed by a review session with Kiarostami, crew member Mohammadreza Delpak, and film critics Ahmad Talebinejad and Javad ...

The portraits are from a collection by Gelareh Kiazand who will organize the exhibition “Shirin – Abbas Kiarostami” to commemorate the second anniversary of his death. “Shirin” is simply a parade of ...

“Shirin” and “Certified Copy”, Kiarostami’s two productions that were denied a screening license by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, are due to be cleared for public screening. “Shirin”, ...

Jonathan Rosenbaum and Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa discuss the Iranian master’s first film to screen in Chicago since 2002. Although I’ve seen Five on a big screen in Toronto, I think it works far better as a ...

You screened Shirin at the Venice Film Festival. Shirin is a very unusual way of making a film - just the faces. Venice was very predictable, actually. What was not predictable was the bad quality of ...

Moreover, if we regard "feature" as an international marketing term, how we add up items in Kiarostami's extremely varied filmography that fit that category is by no means certain. I've arbitrarily ...

FILE - In an Aug. 28, 2008 file photo, acclaimed Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami poses during the photo call of his movie 'Shirin' (My sweet Shirin) at the 65th edition of the Venice Film ...

Abbas Kiarostami, who died on July 4, 2016 at the age of 76, was arguably the most prolific and experimental of Iranian producers and directors, such as Dariush Mehrjui, Abbas Kiarostami, Mohsen ...

News trickled out of a Paris hospital on the evening of 4 July that Iranian cinematic auteur Abbas Kiarostami lost his battle against cancer at the age of 76. Kiarostami had been admitted to Tehran's ...

From July to September 2015, the Freer|Sackler features a series of programs highlighting contemporary moving-image works from Iran. The series opens with Five Dedicated to Ozu (2003, 74 minutes) by ...

Celebrated Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami has died after a battle with cancer, the Isna news service reported on Monday. He was 76. Kiarostami won the Cannes Film Festival’s highest honor, the ...