Below are several accounts: Armen Sarvar (Iran/Armenia): “The first time Kiarostami started speaking ... At the end of the workshop, Abbas reminded us kindly, “you have now made a short film in ten ...

Sundance: Writer/director Alireza Khatami's disquieting diptych gazes into the violent undoing of a Turkish literature professor with a nightmarish lens.

When my first film came out, someone wrote, “It’s like Kiarostami took ecstasy.” And then someone who saw this film during post-production told me, “This is David Lynch if he was ever ...