The author and writer Mahmood Hosseini Zad will talk about poetry in Iranian cinema in a contribution, with a special focus on the films of Abbas Kiarostami. Kiarostami's films are regularly represented at the film festivals in Cannes, Venice and Berlin; The filmmaker himself was most recently a member of the Oscar jury. Mahmood Hosseini Zad was awarded the Goethe Medal and is considered the most important translator of German literature into Persian. His translations include works by Brecht, Dürrenmatt, Böll, Kafka, Judith Hermann and Peter Stamm. The contribution…

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