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Fifteen films of as many nationalities will be in competition at the Ninth Marrakech International Film Festival, hosted by the Moroccan city from December 4 to 12, organizers said Monday. The films in competition are “Heliopolis” by Ahmad Abdallah (Egypt),...
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The multi-talented Iranian director, who is a filmmaker, painter, designer and photographer, has received many prestigious international awards, including the 1997 Cannes 'Golden Palm' award and the 2008 'Glory to the Filmmaker' award of the Venice Film...
Tags: Abbas Kiarostami, Indonesia, Tareque Masud, Jakarta, Cannes Film Festival, Cinema of Iran, Artistic depictions of Bangladesh Liberation War, Independent films of Bangladesh, Cinema of Bangladesh, Matir Moina, Entertainment Culture
More that 150 entries from 36 countries around the world were received. International Migrants Day - at an awards gala attended by senior UN representatives at the Paley Center for Media in New York.
Tags: New York City, International Migrants Day, Cinema of Iran, UNICEF, Abbas Kiarostami, Iranian people, Persian people, Entertainment Culture, Social Issues
The event, to be held from Nov. 19 to 22, 2009 at the Carrousel du Louvre, will present photographs by Bahman Jalali, Katayoun Karami and Gohar Dashti along with artists from 22 countries. Karami's Other Side and Dashti's Today's Life and War photo collections...
Tags: United Kingdom, London, Abbas Kiarostami, Paris Photo, Cinema of Iran, Louvre, Bahman Jalali, Karami, Yto Barrada
Supported by the English National Opera (ENO) Trust, The internationally-acclaimed filmmaker was to stage Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte at London's Coliseum Theater. The Daily Telegraph quoted unnamed sources as saying that Kiarostami was not treated respectfully...
Tags: Abbas Kiarostami, Cosi Fan Tutte, Mr Kiarostami, Mozart, London
The project, which was scheduled to start shooting in March 2008, will begin shooting on June 8, Screen Daily reported. Starring the Academy Award winning French actress Juliette Binoche and produced by France's MK2, Certified Copy is Kiarostami's first...
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Organizers of the Venice Film Festival waited to announce the Iranian film "Khastegi," or "Tedium," by first-time Iranian director Bahman Motamedian until the last minute to avoid alerting authorities to its sensitive subject: transsexuals in modern-day...
Unlike other Iranian directors who fled abroad, he still lives in Tehran, despite a regime that has not permitted his films to be shown there for the past 10 years...European and US arts supremos have long schemed to get him to direct in the west, for...
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Japan - Kiarostami Seven films directed by acclaimed film director Abbas Kiarostami will be screened in Tokyo's Eurospace Cinema for one week. The films including 'Passenger', 'Where Is My Friend's House', 'Bread and Alley', 'Homework', 'Life and Nothing...
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