Created in 1965, Kanoon had grown to be a prolific cultural producer by 1969, involving itself in everything from book publishing and illustration to film ... including the filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, ...

Abbas Kiarostami wasn’t the first Iranian director to explore these binaries, often by using moviemaking itself as a narrative device, showing us how we’re always acting a role for both the ...

Dozens of Iranian artists involved in various fields including painting, calligraphy painting, illustration, sculpture ... Parviz Kalantari, Abbas Kiarostami, Marco Grigorian, Ardeshir Mohasses, and ...

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 ...

“Taste of Cherry” is a 1997 minimalist drama film written, produced, edited, and directed by celebrated Iranian auteur Abbas Kiarostami, and starring Homayoun Ershadi as a middle-aged Tehran man, who ...

Each film description (along with kid-friendly illustrations ... (try the Criterion channel on Roku) by Abbas Kiarostami was darn close to making her top 3, as was 2001’s “Spy Kids ...

"Close-Up" (1990), crafted by the cinematic virtuoso Abbas Kiarostami, isn't just a film; it's a deeply human odyssey that resonates with the core of our existence. What elevates it to the ...

The text might be too experimental for children whose targeted age group I don't know but the illustrations by Kiarostami are absolutely exquisite. Combining photography, graphic arts and painting, ...

Abbas Kiarostami who dons the mantle of the great humanistic film tradition, composed expressive shots that conveyed humour, poetry and the philosophical dilemmas faced by the characters in his ...

Fighting the Western perception of Iran as a hostile war zone, Mohammed Afkhami began collecting artworks by Iranian artists to highlight the country’s rich cultural production.

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