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ABC AFRICA
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At the behest of the United Nations, Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami traveled to Uganda to craft this profound and affecting documentary. Kiarostami's film tempers its sadness at the ravaging effects of AIDS, famine, and poverty, with a celebration of the courage and joy of his subjects. By acting as a participant in the events he captures, Kiarostami crafts a work "of seemingly limpid transparency and tremendous, understated compassion" (Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune). In English and Farsi with English Abbas Kiarostami---Iran---2001---83 mins.
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CERTIFIED COPY (CRITERION)
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From the director of Taste of Cherry comes the story of a couple's apparent chance meeting in beautiful Tuscany. He (William Shimell) is a British author in town to talk about his new book. She (Juliette Binoche) is a French gallery owner in search of new works. Together they tour galleries and museums, discovering that truth, like art, is open to interpretation.
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CLOSE-UP (CRITERION)
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Abbas Kiarostami's FIPRESCI Prize-winning film turns the medium upside-down, blurring the lines between documentary and narrative film.
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DAZZLING DIRECTORS: AN EXCLUSIVE FACETS 2-PACK
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This double release boasts the talents of Abbas Kiarostami, Ken Loach, Ermanno Olmi, Lars von Trier, and Carl Theodor Dryer.
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FIVE DEDICATED TO OZU
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Iranian auteur Abbas Kiarostami pays tribute to Yasujiro Ozu with this poetic documentary composed of five shrewd, long shots of the sights and sounds offered by the Caspian seafront. Captured in single takes with no camera movement, Five is "contemplative cinema that generates its own hypnotic, therapeutic fascination" (Screen International). An Official Selection Abbas Kiarostami---Iran/Japan/France---2004---74 mins.
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SHIRIN
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In this experimental feature from Abbas Kiarostami, the director films only the reactions of female audience members who are in a theater watching an adaptation of an ancient Persian fairy tale. Over 100 Iranian female actors and Juliette Binoche make up the nonverbal cast, all responding with a wide range of emotions to the lively film offscreen.
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TASTE OF CHERRY
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Winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes, Kiarostami's brilliant and deceptively simple film follows a dispirited middle-aged man who plans to commit suicide.
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TEN (KIAROSTAMI)
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A daring experiment from celebrated Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami (Taste of Cherry), Ten uses a small digicam planted on the dashboard of a moving car to explore issues of sex, divorce, love, and religion through a series of conversations between driver and passenger. Subtle expressions and chance compositions elevate Kiarostami's study from a formal experiment to a humanistic tour-de-force, "capable of changing the ways you look at the movies - and at life" (Michael Wilmington, Chicago Abbas Kiarostami---Iran/France---2003---90 mins.
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THROUGH THE OLIVE TREES
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Abbas Kiarostami followed Where Is the Friend's Home? and Life and Nothing More with this semi-documentary that fuses the fictional and real-life drama from the aforementioned films. A director (Mohamad Ali Keshavarz) takes his crew back to a rural region of Iran that was devastated by an earthquake. They are casting for a romance about young lovers, but the filmmakers get more than they bargained for when they pick two leads (Hossein Rezai and Tahereh Ladania) who share a real, more compelling, back story. Nominated for the Golden Palm at Cannes and chosen by Cahiers du Cinema as one of the ten best films of 1995. In Farsi with French subtitles.
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TICKETS
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Abbas Kiarostami, Ken Loach, and Ermanno Olmi joined together to direct this trilogy of interwoven stories set aboard a train traveling from Central Europe to Rome.
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TRAVELER, THE (MOSSAFER)
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This raw first feature from Abbas Kiarostami (Close-Up) finds the Iranian auteur telling the story of a relatively unsupervised, gutsy 12-year-old boy (Hassan Darabi) who is determined to see a big soccer match in Tehran. To get there, he's willing to pull a few cons and steal a few rials to afford the bus fare. In Persian with French subtitles. NO English subtitles.
Abbas Kiarostami---Iran---1974---74 mins.
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WIND WILL CARRY US
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Contrasting the simple beauty of life itself with the absurd intrusions and blinders of modern deadlines and technology, Abbas Kiarostami presents a film that is both compassionate and ironic. The story follows a group of media professionals, identified early on as "engineers," who travel to a small village in the northern Kurdistani region of Iran, where the fate of a dying, elderly villager commands their attention. "Shot through with Renoir-esque humanism, this attack on intellectual torpor is also a tribute to the Kurdish people. Utterly brilliant" (David Parkinson, Empire). In Farsi with Abbas Kiarostami---Iran/France---1999---118 mins.
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