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Film screening followed by a Q&A, in English, with the director, Elia Moutamid and writer, Simone Brioni in conversation with Medhin Paolos (Lewis Center for the Arts). Inspired by Reversing […]

The Owens Valley, a slender stretch of high desert in Eastern California, is a place of origins. It has played a major, if underrecognized, role in the industrial development of […]

The paper discusses Abbas Kiarostami's 1979 film, First Case, Second Case. Completed at the end of the Iranian Revolution, just days before the Shah fled Iran and Khomeini returned from […]