Iran yet commemorating Abbas Kiarostami

A Tehran-based café has set to commemorate the late-great Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, screening his ‘Certified Copy’.

Kiarostami’s ‘Certified Copy’ is scheduled to have a screening at Tehran’s Godfather Café on March 8, 2018.

The film narrates the story of two strangers while touring Tuscany, Italy.

Promoting his new book, English author James (William Shimell) meets French store owner Elle (Juliette Binoche), and the two decide to spend a day together.

They travel to a nearby town, get coffee, visit a museum and pretend to be recently married in what turns out to be a popular wedding destination.

As the two strangers get to know each other more and more, it becomes clear that there is more to the new relationship developing.

The 2010 romance drama brought the Cannes Best Actress Award to the French celebrated actress Binoche.

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 several film events around the world.

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