
LAST YEAR'S GRAND prize at the San Francisco International Film Festival,
the prestigious Akira Kurosawa lifetime achievement award, was slated to
go to Iranian auteur Abbas Kiarostami -- and it nearly did. But on being
handed the trophy, the renowned director graciously announced he was accepting
it instead on behalf of an exiled Iranian actor seated in the audience,
Behrouz Vossoughi.
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The San Francisco Bay Guardian,
April 18-24, 2001
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