1.  Images of excruciating suffering and courage are accompanied by the reading of a somber poem by the Iranian director and poet Forough Farrokhzad.

2.  Recent exhibitions included bright, geometric wall paintings by Sol LeWitt and short films by the Iranian director Shirin Neshat.

3.  The latest film by this Iranian director, widely considered one of the greatest living filmmakers, is oblique, evocative and visually stunning.

4.  This year, Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami won the coveted Golden Palm, the top award at the Cannes Film Festival.

5.  Abolfazl Jalili was the soft-spoken Iranian director wearing an ID card.

6.  The film, by Iranian director Jaafar Panahi, tells the story of a little girl who goes to the market to buy fish but loses her money.

7.  The four films by acclaimed Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf were shown at the Jerusalem Film festival earlier this month.

8.  Under Khatami, Iranian directors swept several international awards.

9.  On Thursday gunmen raided the Iranian cultural centre at Multan in Punjab, killing its Iranian director, Mohammad Ali Rahimi, and six Pakistani employees.