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 ...

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 ...

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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 friend's ...

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 ...

It’s as if we’ve been knocked over the head and woken up in some snowy, Canadian version of an Abbas Kiarostami film. And in Rankin’s surreal and enchantingly discombobulating film ...

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 ...