On Thursday, 9th of February, a debate will take place in the CCCB on the work of the filmmaker where the professor and director of the Communication Department, Jordi Balló, will talk to Ryma Sheermohammadi, a translator and cultural disseminator, and with the musician Iman Siuof, in a session moderated by the poet and film critic Esteve Plantada. The act will begin with a dialogue on Kiarostami's work at 6:30 p.m., followed by a reading of his poems accompanied by a musical improvisation with a sanctur.

The poetry of the great Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, linked to the CCCB from the exhibition project "Erice-Kiarostami. Correspondences" (2006), is intimately linked to his film and photographic creation: it is the same poetic gaze that goes through his whole work. His poems, published in Catalan for the first time in El vent se m'endurà (Karwán, 2022), as fulgurant gusts that remember haiku, evoke scenes of nature, everyday life and the rural world, and often raise moral or existential reflections.