For a kaleidoscopic view of the workshop, I asked the filmmakers involved to share anecdotes about their time with Abbas and their experience in the workshop. Below are several accounts: Armen Sarvar ...

Abbas Kiarostami was one of the greatest directors of all time, and his 1997 film 'Taste of Cherry' is no exception to his genius.

The comparisons to Abbas Kiarostami come in the self-aware formalism of "The Things You Kill." A la Iranian director Kiarostami's "Taste of Cherry" - a tradition of nonlinear filmmaking Khatami is ...

Despite being set in a parallel-universe Winnipeg where the people talk in Farsi and the world around them seems as if it's been frozen in time since the mid-1980s (when Abbas Kiarostami ...

Abbas Kiarostami, Terrence Malick, Satyajit Ray and others. “A complete shock that changed how I see the world,” Yi says of the bewildering but exhilarating experience of diving into his ...

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Matthew Rankin, a Manitoba-born, Montreal-based experimental filmmaker, so loves the Iranian New Wave movies of the 1970s and beyond — the films of Abbas Kiarostami, Mohsen and Samira Makhmalbaf ...