8th + 9th of July 2018

Cynema Xanthis 3, Kaimakli, Nicosia, 1021

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With only a year after his death, Cyprus Contemporary Film Centre pays a tribute to beloved director, Abbas Kiarostami, with an outdoor garden film screening. 

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The follow-up film to Taste of Cherry (1997) is The Wind Will Carry Us, which also addresses life and death. It is not surprising that death obsessively consumed Kiarostami’s mind ever since he was fifty-nine (see The Wind Will Carry Us).The movie was very successful in festivals and among critics—at the Venice Film Festival, the movie was nominated for the Golden Lion and won the Grand Special Jury Prize (Silver Lion), the FIPRESCI Prize, and the CinemAvvenire award.Actor J. Hoberman explains the film exquisitely: “It’s part of the movie’s formal brilliance that, suddenly, during its final 10 minutes, too much seems to be happening. The Wind Will Carry Us is a film about nothing and everything—life, death, the quality of light on dusty hills. (Taste of Cinema, Hossein Eidi Zadeh) 

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Programme:

 

8/7/2018 - 8:30 pm 

The Wind Will Carry Us (1999) + short introduction by Doros Demetriou

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9/7/2018 - 8:30 pm 

The Wind Will Carry Us (1999) + screening extract from Five (2003) at 8pm

 

General Admission: €6

 

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