1997 | Color | 99 min 0 seg Middle-aged Mr. Badii wishes to die in a society where suicide is considered an abomination. Driving in the hills above Tehran, he meets an assortment of different characters: Afghans; Kurds; Turks; prisoners of the desert; a soldier; a seminary student, and a museum employee. But each character has his or her own reasons to turn down the job: fear, religious scruples or the humanist?s revulsion at a life wilfully squandered. Taste of Cherry is an emotionally complex meditation on life and death. Country: Irán Direction: Kiarostami; Abbas Script: Kiarostami; Abbas Production: Kiarostami; Abbas Photography: Payvar; Homayun Sound: Mirshekarin; Jehangir Cast:Ali Moradi; Safar, Khorshid Bakhtiari; Afshin, Bagheri; Abdolrahman, Ershadi; Homayoun, Hossein Noori; Mir Art direction: Agha Karimi; Hassan Participation year at FICM: 2012
1997 | Color | 99 min 0 seg Middle-aged Mr. Badii wishes to die in a society where suicide is considered an abomination. Driving in the hills above Tehran, he meets an assortment of different characters: Afghans; Kurds; Turks; prisoners of the desert; a soldier; a seminary student, and a museum employee. But each character has his or her own reasons to turn down the job: fear, religious scruples or the humanist?s revulsion at a life wilfully squandered. Taste of Cherry is an emotionally complex meditation on life and death. Country: Irán Direction: Kiarostami; Abbas Script: Kiarostami; Abbas Production: Kiarostami; Abbas Photography: Payvar; Homayun Sound: Mirshekarin; Jehangir Cast:Ali Moradi; Safar, Khorshid Bakhtiari; Afshin, Bagheri; Abdolrahman, Ershadi; Homayoun, Hossein Noori; Mir Art direction: Agha Karimi; Hassan Participation year at FICM: 2012
ABC Africa Uganda, March 2000. At the request of the UN's International Fund for Agricultural Development, Abbas Kiarostami and Seifollah Samadian arrive in Kampala. For 10 days, their DV cameras capture the faces of thousands of children, all orphans whose parents have died of AIDS. They record tears and laughter, music and silence, life and death. The documentary attests to Africa's sunny resilience in the face of so much suffering and disease. See More
Certified Copy An English author visits Italy to promote his latest book and give a lecture on the relationship between originals and copies in the world of art. He meets a French art gallery owner and they decide to spend a couple of hours walking through the alleyways of a small village in the southern part of Tuscany. See More
Close-up This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational reallife event -the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf- as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves. See More
The 22nd FICM Awarded the Best of its Official Selection and Impulso Morelia 10 10 · 25 · 24 Alfonso Cuarón Presents a Film that Shaped Him at the 22nd FICM: JONÁS WHO WILL BE 25 IN THE YEAR 2000 10 · 25 · 24 The Vindication of a Great Artist: Interview with Eva Aridjis Fuentes, Director of ADIÓS CABALLOS: THE MANY LIVES OF Q LAZZARUS (2024) 10 · 25 · 24 The Documentary LAS AMAZONAS DE YAXUNAH Premieres at the 22nd FICM 10 · 25 · 24
Alfonso Cuarón Presents a Film that Shaped Him at the 22nd FICM: JONÁS WHO WILL BE 25 IN THE YEAR 2000 10 · 25 · 24
The Vindication of a Great Artist: Interview with Eva Aridjis Fuentes, Director of ADIÓS CABALLOS: THE MANY LIVES OF Q LAZZARUS (2024) 10 · 25 · 24
