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Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Genres: Illnesses & Disabilities, Social Issues, Culture & Society
Released Date: May 03, 2002 (USA
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Summary:
Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has often concerned himself with children striving to make the best of difficult circumstances, and this documentary finds him capturing a real-life corollary to the fictional tales of his best-known work. At the request of the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development, Kiarostami traveled to Africa to make a film about the wo... Full Summary >>

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Review:
Abbas Kiarostami's documentary on AIDS in Uganda is devastating not only because of its subject matter, but also because of the way it reveals Kiarostami's boundless humanism. Departing from the carefully composed, static landscape shots that recur in his features, he uses a handheld digital video camera to capture the fabric of Ugandan li... Continue >>

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