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 ...

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 ...

He's in his early 30s, handsome, and married to a beautiful, 10-years-younger veterinarian (Hazar Ergüçlü ... for Balthazar Getty in the second half. The comparisons to Abbas Kiarostami come in the ...