Question

A film by this director opens with long-distance shots of a Land Rover traveling to a village where a film crew hopes to document funeral rites. (10[1])After an earthquake, this director searched (10[1])for the stars (10[1])of a film about a boy who accidentally takes his classmate’s notebook. (10[1])A film by this director ends (10[2])with a shot of the camera crew (10[1])filming as a character lies (10[2])in his grave (10[2])during a rainstorm. (10[1])Near the end of a film by this director, the sound cuts out as two men talk as they buy pink flowers (10[1])and ride a motorcycle. (10[1])In a (10[1])film by this director, a man picks up three different people in his car and asks them to bury him after his suicide. In a 1990 film, this director of The Wind Will Carry Us and Where Is the Friend’s House? re-enacted the trial of a man (10[1])who posed as the filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf. For 10 points, name this director who set Taste (10[1])of Cherry and Close-Up in his (10[1])home country of Iran. (10[1])■END■ (10[1]0[1])

ANSWER: Abbas Kiarostami
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y20100%0%0%86.65

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Andrew HannaVanderbilt AHarvard A2510
Anson BernsBrown AClaremont A3110
Caleb KendrickMaryland AHouston A3410
Vittal BhatNorth Carolina AJohns Hopkins A4610
Andrew ZengStanford AGeorgia Tech B5210
Raymond WangCornell AUC Berkeley A5210
Nicholas TunksMinnesota BCornell B5910
Ian ChowToronto ASouth Carolina A6410
Ashish SubramanianDuke AGeorgia Tech A6410
Ani PerumallaPenn State AIllinois A6710
James StevensonMichigan AChicago C6710
Ned TagtmeierChicago ARutgers A7010
Clark SmithOhio State ARutgers B9210
Ethan AshbrookMinnesota APenn A9610
Mateo Javier AcostaFlorida BMIT A9810
Matthew SiffYale BColumbia B14510
Michał GerasimiukYale AWUSTL B16110
Guy IndoranteIowa State AImperial A16710
Justin HawkinsIndiana AWUSTL A17110
Cormac BeirneMcGill AColumbia A1720
Noah SheidlowerColumbia AMcGill A17210