Acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami dies in 76
Award-winning Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami has died in Paris at the age of seventy-six.
The celebrated Iranian director had traveled to Paris to undergo treatment for his cancer.
The death of Kiarostami whose Taste of Cherry won the Cannes film festival top prize in 19-97, has sparked international condolences.
Oscar-winning Iranian film-maker Asghar Farhadi, who had been due to fly to Paris to visit his friend later on Monday, said he was 'very sad and in a complete shock.'
The British Film Institute tweeted that it was “saddened" at the news, while the New York cinema magazine The Film Stage said 'the world may have lost its greatest filmmaker.'
Last week, Kiarostami was among some seven-hundred film-makers asked to join the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences.
Kiarostami won dozens of international awards over a career spanning more than 40 years.
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