# Event Details - **Event Name**: Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami, 1997) +Q&A with film critic A.S. Hamrah - **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 03 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm - **Event Description**: "Taste of Cherry" (Abbas Kiarostami, 1997, 99 min, Iran, Persian with English subtitles, DCP) -- Q&A to follow with film critic A.S. Hamrah This austere, emotionally complex drama by the great Abbas Kiarostami follows the enigmatic Mr. Badii (Homayoun Ershadi) as he drives around the hilly outskirts of Tehran looking for someone who will agree to bury him after he commits suicide, a taboo under Islam. Extended conversations with three passengers (a soldier, a seminarian, and a taxidermist) elicit different views on mortality and individual choice. Operating at once as a closely observed, realistic story and a fable populated by archetypal figures, TASTE OF CHERRY challenges the viewer to consider what often goes unexamined in everyday life. -- Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival “The loose stories, contemplative style, and relative absence of plot in Kiarostami’s films free us from feeling manipulated, even as we are patiently led to endings that are quite often emotionally shattering.” – A.S. Hamrah “Kiarostami, like no other filmmaker, has a vision of human scale that is simultaneously epic and precisely minuscule.” – New York Times "A Masterpiece." – Film Comment == A. S. Hamrah is the author of THE EARTH DIES STREAMING: FILM WRITING, 2002-2018 and ALGORITHM OF THE NIGHT: FILM WRITING, 2019-2025. He is the film critic for n+1 and writes for a number of other publications, including Harper’s, Bookforum, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, Fast Company, The Baffler, and the Criterion Collection. He has worked as a movie theater projectionist, a semiotic brand analyst in the television industry, a political pollster, a football cinematographer, and for the film director Raúl Ruiz. He produced the feature-length documentary BUNKER, directed by Jenny Perlin, which was the opening night film at the Museum of Modern Art’s Doc Fortnight in 2022. He lives in New York. == Event URL: https://cinematicarts.duke.edu/screensociety/screenings/taste-cherry-abbas-kiarostami-1997-qa-film-critic-hamrah View trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JM7lMbf5e8 Screen/Society screenings are free and open to the public. == https://cinematicarts.duke.edu/covid-19-information Parking Info: https://artscenter.duke.edu/parking == Related Event: Monday, March 2, 2026 7:00pm at Letters Bookshop (116 W Main St, Durham NC) "An evening with film critic A.S. Hamrah" A reading, book signing, and conversation with A.S. Hamrah, film critic for The Baffler, n+1, Harper’s, and more. Hamrah’s two new collections of film writing are must-reads for anyone trying to make sense of filmgoing in this time of corporate culturemaking. Presented by Duke Cinematic Arts, Experimental Film Lab @ Franklin Humanities Institute, Movie Loft, Letters Bookshop, Skin and Bones Theater, and Film Durham. == - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/durham/taste-of-cherry-abbas-kiarostami-1997-qanda-with-film-critic-as-hamrah/200029760642542 - **Event Categories**: entertainment, art, theatre, performances, sports, festivals, literary-art, football - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 6 ## Ticket Details ## Event venue details - **city**: Durham - **state**: NC - **country**: United States - **location**: Rubenstein Arts Center at Duke University - **lat**: 36.000376410002 - **long**: -78.929635010002 - **full address**: Rubenstein Arts Center at Duke University, Campus Drive,Durham,NC,United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami, 1997) +Q&A with film critic A.S. Hamrah - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events10/banners/89b5cacee108f07b8ef6db5a92b6f27f518b34c473d5d6646d55d3654d258372-rimg-w1200-h775-dcedf0ec-gmir?v=1772459382 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami, 1997) +Q&A with film critic A.S. Hamrah being held? - **A:** Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami, 1997) +Q&A with film critic A.S. Hamrah takes place on Tue, 03 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Tue, 03 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm at Rubenstein Arts Center at Duke University, Campus Drive,Durham,NC,United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami, 1997) +Q&A with film critic A.S. Hamrah? - **A:** Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami, 1997) +Q&A with film critic A.S. Hamrah is organized by Cinematic Arts at Duke. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami, 1997) +Q&A with film critic A.S. 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