The film-maker is renowned as an artist who stayed in Iran after the Islamic revolution of 1979, when others fled abroad. As his new film premieres in Edinburgh, he talks to Maya Jaggi Close-up ... Abbas Kiarostami. Photograph: Sarah Lee/Guardian Abbas Kiarostami was about to celebrate his 50th birthday when the earthquake of 1990 hit northern . He drove with his son from the capital, Tehran, to the devastated region, where he had recently filmed Where Is the Friend's House?, an acutely observed...
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