Saturday, May 9, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Vidiots, Los Angeles
**Screenwriter**: Abbas Kiarostami **Producer**: Hassan Agha Karimi Internationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the past thirty years, and *Close-up* is his most radical, brilliant work. This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves. With its universal themes and fascinating narrative knots, *Close-up* has resonated with viewers around the world. **Accessibility Options**: Amplified Audio, please see the box office for devices.