The Internationally-acclaimed Iranian auteur Abbas Kiarostami has been invited to attend the Ibn Arabi Film Festival (IBAFF) in the southeastern Spanish city of Murcia.
Kiarostami along with the renowned French screenwriter and actor Jean-Claude Carrière is slated to present workshops on filmmaking during the festival.

The 2013 edition of the festival will also hold a retrospective of Kiarostami’s films and discussion meetings.

The event’s Honorary Award will also be granted to Jean-Claude Carrière for his screenwriting in great works such asThe Tin Drum(1979), Danton (1983), The Return of Martin Guerre (1982), The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988).

Kiarostami’s diverse works of art such as painting, photography, Poetry and filmmaking are also to be reviewed during artistic workshops and programs in France in February.

As a filmmaker, painter, designer and photographer, Kiarostami has received many prestigious international awards, including the 1997 Cannes Golden Palm award and the 2008 Glory to the Filmmaker award of the Venice Film Festival.

He has staged Mozart's opera buffa (comic opera), Cosi Fan Tutte at London's Coliseum Theater and the 2008 Festival of Lyric Art in Aix-en-provence in France.

Kiarostami participated in the third edition of the Spanish festival while grabbed the Honorary Award of last year’s event.

Moreover, Iranian scholar and critic Bahman Maqsoudlou also presided over the jury panel of the last year’s IBAFF.

The fourth edition of Ibn Arabi Film Festival is scheduled to take place from March 4 to 9, 2013.

By Press TV

 

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