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Kiarostami: Uncommon /

Abbas Kiarostami was an Iranian film director, screenwriter and photographer. An active film-maker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in over forty films, including shorts and documentaries and he attained critical acclaim. He was part of a generation of filmmakers in the Iranian New Wave, a Persian cinema movement that started in the late 1960s and includes pioneering directors such as Bahram Beyzai and Sohrab Shahid Saless.

In March 2016, Kiarostami was hospitalized due to intestinal bleeding and reportedly went into a coma, in late June he left Iran for treatment in a Paris hospital, where he died on 4 July. His body was returned to Tehran's Imam Khomeini International Airport on 8 July, while a crowd of Iranian film directors, actors, actresses and other artists were in Tehran airport to pay their respects.
Artists, cultural authorities, government officials and the Iranian people gathered to say goodbye to Kiarostami on 10 July, in an emotional funeral, six days after his death in France. The ceremony was held at the Center for the Intellectual Education of Children, where he began his film-making career some 40 years ago.

So, This is a personal coverage of that funeral. but in a strange way. I just focused on the participant's faces and their expression.

 

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