TEHRAN -- Iranian film director Abbas Kia Rostami is acclaimed worldwide as a producer of films with very personal themes that are seen as portraying his life experiences. Film critic Sabereh Mohammad Kashi, in a report released by the Iranian Student News Agency (ISNA), gave her personal views on Kia Rostami as a film director. Addressing a session of film personalities after the premiere screening of Kia Rostami's A.B.C Africa' at the Tehran Art and Culture Complex, Kashi said that Kia Rostami's films generally feature either his own life and experiences or that of someone else mirroring his. She noted that even the camera and lense angle is set from Kia Rostami's view. "He improved his personal style with every film that he directed and displayed his utmost skill in Under the Olive Trees,' with an apparently simple, personal theme but emerging as a most complex audiovisual piece of art misleading even the most professional and clever viewer." "The question that has often been raised by those who have viewed the said film is: which section is real and which is a product of his imagination?" she added. "I consider the film one of the best in the history of the cinema. On the other hand, in his The Taste of Cherry,' Kia Rostami brings up the everyday facts of life by underlining the issues of life and death on which he obviously has a personal and keen obsession," she said. She stressed that Iranian cinema is identified worldwide with Kia Rostami's films and that most Iranian filmmakers who have achieved success in world film festivals have been influenced by Kia Rostami's films. She added that he has even highly impressed foreign filmmakers and is acclaimed by film critics worldwide as the most prominent Iranian director in the 90s. She further described Kia Rostami as a very realistic director in whose films the viewer feels as though he is at the heart of real situations rather than simply watching a film. "The portrayal of events occurring in the outside world from the eye of a camera is not as simple as it seems to be. Just as Saadi's fluent verses are, on first reading, taken as simple and easy to write, the moment one takes a pen the reality that they are not so becomes readily evident,"