IRAN-SPAIN: CINEMATOGRAPHIC RELATIONS

The film relations between Iran and Spain suffer a great asymmetry, which makes it a difficult case study. Whereas in Spain there have been distributed hitherto 28 Iranian feature films for exhibition, there is no official information about the Spanish films that have been shown in Iranian cinemas. However, since the emergence of the Iranian film in international film festivals during the ’90s, there arose some personal and professional relations between some filmmakers of both countries. This article explores the paradigmatic case of the presence of Kiarostami in Spain, in addition to the video correspondences that he and Victor Erice kept between 2005 and 2008.