Jafar Panahi Remembers Abbas Kiarostami: "His Vision Will Live Forever. My most vivid recollection of all the years I spent with Mr. Kiarostami is probably the first one." www.indiewire.com Add new comment
Two years ago, I was in Cartagena, Colombia, teaching a workshop in cultural journalism under the auspices of the Gabriel García Márquez Foundation. The local film festival was running concurrently, and one of its visiting masters was the Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. The organizer of our program persuaded him to chat with the group about his work, and persuaded me to moderate the...