Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami made this semi-documentary inspired by a newspaper headline: 'A criminal posing as a famous film director, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, invited a wealthy family to make a film. This was an excuse to inspect the house before the robbery, but the perpetrator was arrested." Kiarostami invited everyone involved in the story to be filmed in his film and got permission to set up two cameras in the court. In one of them, he recorded the trial in a general view, while in the other, in close-up, he searched for the deeper truth.  "A landmark film in Kiarostami's career, it is now in the top 20 of the world. At the same time, it is a significant document of the New Iranian Cinema - its achievements, its place in Iranian society and the status and power of the director. It is also about what has always been at the heart of Iranian cinema - a humane view of the human person, philosophical curiosity and ambiguous moral dilemmas that have no clear answer, but which invite the viewer to be an active witness to them. It finds a strong resonance in "Cinema Spring" in Alice Diop's "Saint Omer", a film with a similar DNA" (Aistė Račaitytė).