Tehran. (HONARONLINE)- MK2 Films, a French film company that distributes a unique library of 800 films in France and around the world, plans to hold a retrospective on the work of late Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami during April 2021 at the Pompidou Center in Paris.
TEHRAN.(HONARONLINE) – The 44th edition of the Hong Kong International Film Festival has announced its lineup with three films by Abbas Kiarostami and one by his fellow Iranian filmmaker Nader Saeivar.
TEHRAN.(HONARONLINE) – A Tehran court has ordered all copies of a book containing a collection of renowned Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami’s private letters to his former wife to be removed from bookstores over his son Ahmad’s lawsuit against the publisher.
TEHRAN. (HONARONLINE) – India’s Alliance Media & Entertainment plans to acquire a collection of works by Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami from France’s MK2 Films for distribution in the country.
TEHRAN. (HONARONLINE) – The Paris-based distributor MK2 Films will release Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami’s The Koker Trilogy on April 7, Nasrin Mirshab, the director of the DreamLab Films, the France-based international distributor of the film, has announced.
TEHRAN.(HONARONLINE) -- The 17th edition of the Image of the Year Celebration was inaugurated on Friday at the Iranian Artists Forum (IAF) with a screening of Sohanak, a film that depicts Abbas Kiarostami playing the role of the leading character of his movie “Taste of Cherry” on a pilot project.
TEHRAN. (HONARONLINE) – Iranian director Mahmudreza Sani’s documentary Kiarostami and His Missing Cane about the world-renowned filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has been selected to be screened in the official competition of the 9th IntimaLente Film Festival, a public relations team of the film announced on Sunday.
Tehran’s Golestan Gallery is hosting a collection of rarely-seen paintings by legendary filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami until 20 November. “Over 30 paintings mainly done in the years between 1980 and 2000 have been borrowed from private collectors to showcase during the exhibit,” Golestan Gallery owner Lili Golestan said in a press release. “Holding an exhibition of paintings by Kiarostami was discussed several times before his death, but Kiarostami always said that he has only a few paintings at home and does not have enough time to do more,” Golestan said. Kiarostami, the acclaimed director of a number of world-renowned Iranian movies such as Where Is the Friend’s House?, Life and Nothing More, Under the Olive Trees and The Wind Will Carry Us, died of cancer on July 5, 2016 at the age of 76. He was a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of Tehran.
TEHRAN. (HONARONLINE) – The Gallery 21 in Paris will host an exhibition of photos on November 18 in memory of legendary Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami.