London host works by Iran directors

A collection of photography works by Abbas Kiarostami and Nasser Taqvaei is displayed in a gallery underway in London.

The London museum of contemporary and modern art has launched a gallery of photography works by some Iranian directors including Kiarostami and Taqvaei.

The gallery will be up until October 2, 2018 in the UK city of London.

Kiarostami has won many awards including the Palme d'Or he snatched at the Cannes Festival in 1997 for his film ‘Taste of Cherry’.

The late writer-director has been widely hailed as a pioneer of the Iranian New Wave.

He is mostly known as a screenwriter, film editor, art director and producer as well as a poet, photographer, painter, illustrator, and graphic designer.

The veteran Iranian filmmaker who passed away on July 4, 2016, following a heart attack at the age of 76, was honored at about 300 film events around the world.

Born in 1941 in southern Iranian city of Abadan, Taqvaei began working in the film industry as a member of the technical crew working on ‘Brick and Mirror’ in 1965.

Taqvaei directed the film ‘Tranquility in the Presence of Others’ in 1972 based on a story by Iranian writer Gholam-Hossein Saedi for which he won the Best Film certificate of merit from the Venice International Film Festival in Italy.

He was nominated for Best Director for ‘Captain Khorshid’ in 1986 at the Fajr International Film Festival.

His ‘Unruled Paper’, made in 2001, won the Fajr Festival Crystal Simorgh for Best Director and the Iran Cinema Celebration’s Critics Choice award of Best Film.

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