From July to September 2015, the Freer|Sackler features a series of programs highlighting contemporary moving-image works from Iran. The series opens with Five Dedicated to Ozu (2003, 74 minutes) by ...

The Criterion Collection’s massively underrated Eclipse series returns after a far-too-long hiatus. The series, known for ...

Iran has plans to screen two films by Abbas Kiarostami, most of whose films have never been allowed to premiere in Iran, in the near future, Mehr news agency reported. "Shirin" and "Certified Copy", ...

You screened Shirin at the Venice Film Festival. Shirin is a very unusual way of making a film - just the faces. Venice was very predictable, actually. What was not predictable was the bad quality of ...

French mini-major MK2 Films has acquired all rights to late Iranian film master Abbas Kiarostami’s first 20 movies. Under the agreement – signed with the Institute Kanoon (Institut iranien pour le ...

Special Plaque of Lebanese Ministry of Culture and Art, Lebanon 2000 The Youth Prize of Future Cinema for The Wind Will Carry Us at the 56th Venice International Film Festival, Italy 1999 FIPRESCI ...

Exclusive: The touring retrospective includes restorations of The Koker Trilogy and his Palme d'Or winner "Taste of Cherry." Three years after Palme d’Or-winning Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami ...

This week in the magazine, David Denby writes about the Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami, who has just released “Certified Copy,” his first film made in Europe and his first feature film in more ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about cinema and TV series in Europe. The Franco-German TV channel Arte is showing Abbas Kiarostami’s film, 24 Frames. The ...

Losing any great filmmaker hurts, but the death of Abbas Kiarostami 18 months ago hit particularly hard. It wasn’t just that he was still doing great work nearly five decades into an illustrious ...

French mini-major MK2 Films has acquired all rights to late Iranian film master Abbas Kiarostami‘s first 20 movies. Under the agreement – signed with the Institute Kanoon (Institut iranien pour le ...