Directors : Ermanno Olmi, Abbas Kiarostami, Ken Loach Country of origin : Italy / UK Language : English, Italian, Albanian with English subtitles (110 mins) DIRECTORS Ermanno Olmi : born in Bergamo, Italy in 1931, Olmi is one Italian cinema’s true masters. Spanning a career of over 45 years he has won numerous prizes including the Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or for The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978) and the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988). Abbas Kiarostami : born in Teheran, Iran in 1940 Kiarostami is an undisputed master of modern cinema. His films include The Taste of Cherry, which won the Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or in 1997, and The Wind Will Carry Us, awarded the Golden Lion at the 1999 Venice Film Festival and Ten (2003) which was selected for Official Competition at Cannes. Ken Loach : born in Nuneaton, UK in 1936, Ken Loach has firmly entrenched his reputation as England’s pre-eminent director of social realism cinema with such classics as Kes (1968), My Name Is Joe(1999) and AE Fond Kiss(2004).