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Taste of Cherry (Ta'm e Guilass)

Desert with a city in the background and a group of people walking in the foreground.
Abbas Kiarostami, Taste of Cherry, 1997 (Photo courtesy Criterion Collection)

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Directed by Abbas Kiarostami

Part of Reshaping Our World: Cinema Without Borders

Winner of the 1997 Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, Taste of Cherry (Ta’m e Guilass) is an intriguing meditation on life and death as a man on the brink of suicide searches for someone to bury his body. Director Abbas Kiarostami participated in a Walker Dialogue and Retrospective in 1997. 1997, in Persian with English subtitles, 95 minutes.

Preceded by Take Me Home, Kiarostami’s last film, which follows a football as it traverses a southern Italian town. Rhythmic movements accompanied by a jazz score are characteristically and elegantly composed by the director against the chaos of chance. 2016, 16 minutes.

Reshaping Our World: Cinema Without Borders is copresented with Mizna, a Twin Cities nonprofit arts organization that promotes contemporary expressions of Arab American culture.

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