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Abbas Kiarostami is the winner of the 65th Venice Film Festival’s Glory to the Filmmaker Award, which honors eclectic masters of world cinema.

The prize had begun last year with the Japanese director Takeshi Kitano named the first recipient of the award.

Kitano handed over the prize this year to Kiarostami in a ceremony in the Lido’s Sala Grande. Kiarostami is in Venice once again with an experimental film with Juliette Binoche starring called Shirin which will be screened out of competition this year.

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