Ideas such as identity as an illusion and journey as a means of devotion appear throughout much of Kiarostami’s work. In his finest film, 1997’s devastatingly simple but mesmerizing Taste of Cherry, ...

In January, the New York theater will host a mini-festival featuring the works of "It Was Just an Accident" director Jafar Panahi and his mentor, Abbas Kiarostami — the only two Iranian filmmakers to ...

Sathyu’s film shows the painful fate of a Muslim businessman and his family who decide to stay in India after partition in ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Ahmad Kiarostami visits Asia Society to present his father Abbas's famous Koker Trilogy as part of our ongoing classics series Films to See Before You Die. Abbas Kiarostami first came to international ...

The son of the late Palme d'Or-winning filmmaker said his father's house was damaged in an air strike in the Chizar district. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief The house of legendary Iranian ...

In a surprise maneuver, master filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami announced after the completion of his gorgeous “The Wind Will Carry Us” in 2000 that he was joining the DV revolution and would hang up his ...

These films provide some insight into the problems of Iranian society and help transform the Iranian “devils” into humans ...

One of the ironies of the use of special effects in movies is their literal-mindedness: That is, by pouring millions of dollars into computer-generated imagery, film producers try to bludgeon us into ...

The Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami was 76 years old when he died, and his last feature was 2012’s Like Someone in Love — so why does it feel like he’s been taken away from us at a moment of such ...

The son of the late Palme d'Or-winning filmmaker said his father's house was damaged in an air strike in the Chizar district of Tehran.