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2022-06-24 18:50
Winners of 5 International Photo Award announced with tribute to Abbas Kiarostami
TEHRAN – Winners of the 3rd edition of the 5 International Photo Award were announced Wednesday evening with a tribute to world-renowned Iranian filmmaker and photographer Abbas Kiarostami.
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2022-03-13 18:35
“Tonight’s Homework” brings Kiarostami back to life at Ljubljana festival
TEHRAN – World-renowned Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami was remembered at the Ljubljana Documentary Film Festival in Slovenia last Wednesday by screening the Iranian documentary “Tonight’s Homework”.
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2022-01-22 18:11
Ten Iranian classics picked for review at Fajr Film Festival
TEHRAN – Ten films from renowned Iranian directors, including Abbas Kiarostami, will be reviewed at the 40th Fajr Film Festival as the organizers announced the lineup for the Classics Preserved section on Saturday.
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2021-10-16 14:14
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Abbas Kiarostami celebrated in a multimedia event at the Italian Embassy in Tehran
By Siavash Sufinejad
TEHRAN- The Italian Ambassador in Tehran, Giuseppe Perrone, has hosted today a tribute to Abbas Kiarostami with a special photo exhibit, classical music performance and the screening of two video documentaries featuring the places which have served as inspiration for Kiarostami.
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2021-07-25 18:40
Sydney festival to review films by Abbas Kiarostami
TEHRAN – The Sydney Film Festival will hold a retrospective of renowned Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami.
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2021-07-16 18:25
Abbas Kiarostami films under spotlight at Moscow Garage Screen
TEHRAN – Garage Screen, a major film center in Moscow that focuses on new cinema and the history of films in dialogue with contemporary art and culture, is holding a retrospective of Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami.
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2021-07-06 19:00
Asian Film Archive to hold retrospective of filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami
TEHRAN – The Asian Film Archive, a non-governmental center in Singapore that preserves the film heritage of Asian cinema, plans to hold a retrospective of the world-renowned Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami.
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2021-05-18 18:56
Pompidou Center to screen “Walking with the Wind” in tribute to Abbas Kiarostami
TEHRAN – The Pompidou Center in Paris plans to screen the documentary “Walking with the Wind” on June 18 in its tribute to the celebrated Iranian artist Abbas Kiarostami.
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2021-04-13 18:39
By Samaneh Aboutalebi
Iranian children’s cinema, simple but not easy to portrait
It is deceptively simple to make a film about children, but it is one of the most popular subjects for directors.
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2021-02-02 19:27
Where Is Friend Kiarostami?: Pompidou Center, MK2 Films to review oeuvre of Kiarostami
TEHRAN – The Pompidou Center in Paris and the French company MK2 Films have teamed up to exhibit an oeuvre of Abbas Kiarostami, the world-renowned Iranian artist who was an old hand in numerous art media, in a program named “Where Is Friend Kiarostami?”
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2020-07-31 18:49
Hong Kong festival picks films by Abbas Kiarostami, Nader Saeivar
TEHRAN – The 44th edition of the Hong Kong International Film Festival has announced its lineup with three films by Abbas Kiarostami and one by his fellow Iranian filmmaker Nader Saeivar.
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2020-07-07 18:30
Book on Abbas Kiarostami removed from stores over his son’s lawsuit
TEHRAN – A Tehran court has ordered all copies of a book containing a collection of renowned Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami’s private letters to his former wife to be removed from bookstores over his son Ahmad’s lawsuit against the publisher.
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2020-04-27 18:21
Netflix pens deal with MK2 to screen Abbas Kiarostami films
TEHRAN – Netflix has penned a new deal with France’s MK2 Films to screen a number of remastered versions of films by Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami.
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2020-04-21 18:22
Documentaries on Abbas Kiarostami’s Koker Trilogy released
TEHRAN – Documentarian Hamideh Sharifrad has released three of her documentaries about Abbas Kiarostami’s The Koker Trilogy on Hashure, an Iranian platform providing the video on demand (VOD) service for documentary films.
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2020-02-28 18:02
India’s Alliance to acquire Abbas Kiarostami’s film collection
TEHRAN -- India’s Alliance Media & Entertainment plans to acquire a collection of works by Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami from France’s MK2 Films for distribution in the country.
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2020-02-24 18:37
MK2 Films to release Kiarostami’s Koker Trilogy in France
TEHRAN – The Paris-based distributor MK2 Films will release Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami’s The Koker Trilogy on April 7, Nasrin Mirshab, the director of the DreamLab Films, the France-based international distributor of the film, has announced.
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2020-02-22 18:30
“Sohanak” represents “Taste of Cherry” at Image of the Year Celebration
TEHRAN -- The 17th edition of the Image of the Year Celebration was inaugurated on Friday at the Iranian Artists Forum (IAF) with a screening of “Sohanak”, a film that depicts Abbas Kiarostami playing the role of the leading character of his movie “Taste of Cherry” on a pilot project.
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2019-11-19 15:22
Photo: Babak Borzouyeh
Paris photo exhibit commemorates Abbas Kiarostami
Parisians visit an exhibition of photos underway at the Gallery 21 in the French capital on November 18, 2019 to commemorate the legendary Iranian filmmaker and photographer Abbas Kiarostami. The collection was built by a group of Iranian photographers inspired by poems from Kiarostami’s book “Wind and Leaf” The exhibit, which also takes its title from the book, will be running until November 23. Photographer Babak Borzuyeh is the curator of the exhibit, which is being organized by Sheednegar Academy in Tehran in collaboration with the Farabi Cinema Foundation.
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2019-11-08 18:28
Paris gallery to host photo exhibit in memory of Abbas Kiarostami
TEHRAN – The Gallery 21 in Paris will host an exhibition of photos on November 18 in memory of legendary Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami.
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2019-10-23 18:17
Paintings by Abbas Kiarostami to go on display at Tehran gallery
TEHRAN – A collection of rarely-seen paintings by legendary filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami will put on view in an exhibition at Tehran’s Golestan Gallery, which will open on November 8.
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2019-10-22 18:04
“Kiarostami and His Missing Cane” named best doc at Salto festival
TEHRAN – Iranian director Mahmudreza Sani’s film “Kiarostami and His Missing Cane” about the world-renowned filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has won the award for best documentary feature at the 4th Salto Independent Film Festival in Uruguay.
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2019-07-05 18:43
Kiarostami’s last intl. award donated to Film Museum of Iran
TEHRAN – Legendary Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami’s last international award was donated by his son, Bahman, to the Film Museum of Iran on Friday, which marked the third anniversary of his death, the museum announced.
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2019-07-03 19:03
Kiarostami foundation restores movies for worldwide screenings
TEHRAN – The Abbas Kiarostami Foundation announced on Wednesday that it has completed the restoration of a large lineup of his films for screening worldwide.
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2019-06-19 18:52
“Travel to the Morning” to commemorate Abbas Kiarostami at Tehran gallery
TEHRAN – Tehran’s E1 Gallery will organize an exhibition entitled “Travel to the Morning” in memory of legendary artist Abbas Kiarostami.
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2019-06-16 18:50
Iranian theaters to celebrate Abbas Kiarostami’s birthday
TEHRAN – All the theaters across the country will pay tribute to filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami on June 22, concurrent with the late director’s birthday.
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2019-06-09 17:42
Doc on life of Abbas Kiarostami to go on screen in Tehran
TEHRAN – “Along with Wind”, a documentary about the life of Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami and his artistic career, will go on screen on June 22, concurrent with the late director’s birthday.