Tehran, August 29: Academy-award winning French actress Juliette Binoche and prominent French screenwriter and actor Jean-Claude Carriere are set to attend the event in Iran.
Kiarostami's Shirin and Certified Copy that have not been allowed to premiere in Iran will be screened after some modifications, said the films' distributor Ramin Rahimi.
Shirin and Certified Copy will hit Iranian screens in September and October respectively, Mehr News Agency reported.
“Certified Copy will be screened after a slight modification is made to the hijab of its French lead actress Juliette Binoche,” Rahimi explained.
Kiarostami's first non-Iranian feature, Certified Copy stars Juliette Binoche and was shot in Tuscany, Italy.
The film competed for the Palme d'Or at the 63rd edition of Cannes Film Festival, where Binoche received the Best Actress Award. It also was awarded the top Golden Spike award at the 2010 Valladolid Film Festival in Spain.
Produced by France's MK2, Certified Copy has been screened in France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, the UK, Greece, Portugal, Belgium, Taiwan, the US and Sweden.
Kiarostami's 2008 Shirin illustrates the facial expressions of 114 Iranian theater and cinema actresses while watching a theatrical performance of Khosrow and Shirin, a 12th-century semi-mythical Persian romance.
shirin won Kiarostami the Glory to the Filmmaker award of the 65th Venice Film Festival.
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.
----Agencies
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