Abbas Kiarostami Retrospective. International Recognition

The main protagonist, a filmmaker and Abbas Kiarostami’s alter ego, arrives with his young son in the Iranian village of Koker after a massive earthquake that claimed many lives. They get acquainted with the survivors and try to find the kids who starred in the movie Where Is the Friend’s House? The second part of the Koker Trilogy, Life, and Nothing More… is Kiarostami’s signature picture, whereby he turns his own traumatic and, at the same time, cathartic journey into a “documentary fiction.” Garage Screen presents its restored version.

An Iranian director travels to a small earthquake-ravaged town to make a new film. To play newlyweds, who got married immediately after the tragedy despite losing loved ones, he chooses two nonprofessional actors from local residents, involved, unlike their characters, in a hugely complicated relationship. One of Kiarostami’s least linear works, Through the Olive Trees explores life and art after a catastrophe—and in a sense after death—through the prism of “cinema about cinema.” Garage Screen presents the Russian premiere of the restored version.

A middle-aged man drives through Tehran seeking someone to bury him after he commits suicide—for a price. Arguably Kiarostami’s main and most acclaimed picture, Taste of Cherry brought him international fame and the Palme d’Or in Cannes, the first awarded to an Iranian film. Garage Screen presents the Russian premiere of the restored version.

A TV crew arrives in a remote Kurdish village to shoot an unusual funeral rite. But the local reality turns out to be somewhat a “trap” for the protagonists: an impregnable fortress, falling into which they begin to get lost in their perception of reality. Kiarostami’s most poetic and “elusive” film was awarded the Silver Lion at the 1999 Venice Film Festival. Garage Screen presents the Russian premiere of its restored version.

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