Question: Name one of the best known directors In Iran
About the article "Iran", section "Popular culture and cinema".

Candidate passages:
Modern culture.
With 300 international awards in the past 10 years, films from Iran continue to be celebrated worldwide.
The best known Persian directors are Abbas Kiarostami, Majid Majidi, and Asghar Farhadi. 
With 300 international awards in the past 25 years, films from Iran continue to be celebrated worldwide.
Few of the best known directors are Abbas Kiarostami, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, and Majid Majidi. 
The musical culture of Persia, while distinct, is closely related to other musical systems of the West and Central Asia.
It has also affinities to the music cultures of the Indian subcontinent, to a certain degree even to those of Africa, and, in the period after 1850 particularly, to that of Europe.
Its history can be traced to some extent through these relationships.
Like that of most of the world’s cultures, the music of Persia has depended on oral/aural transmission and learning.
Iranian cinema has thrived in modern Iran, and many Iranian directors have garnered worldwide recognition for their work.
Iranian movies have won over three hundred awards in the past twenty-five years including Oscars.
One of the best-known directors is Abbas Kiarostami.
Iranian women have played an important role in gaining international recognition for Iranian art and in particular Iranian cinema.
Since the rise of the Iranian "New Wave" of Persian cinema, Iran has produced record numbers of film school graduates; each year more than 20 new directors, many of them women, make their debut films.
In the last two decades, the percentage of Iranian film directors who are women has exceeded the percentage of women film directors in most Western countries.
The success of the pioneering director Rakhshan Bani-Etemad suggests that many women directors in Iran were working hard on films long before director Samira Makhmalbaf made the headlines.
Internationally recognized figures in Persian women's cinema are Tahmineh Milani, Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Zahra Dowlatabadi, Niki Karimi, Samira Makhmalbaf, Mahin Oskouei, Pari Saberi, Hana Makhmalbaf, Pouran Rakhshandeh, Shirin Neshat, Sepideh Farsi, Maryam Keshavarz, Yassamin Maleknasr, and Sara Rastegar.
Iranian writer-director Rakhshan Bani-Etemad is probably Iran's best known and certainly most prolific female filmmaker.
She has established herself as the elder stateswoman of Iranian cinema with documentaries and films about social pathology.
One of the best-known female film directors in the country today is Samira Makhmalbaf, who directed her first film, "The Apple", when she was only 17 years old.
Samira Makhmalbaf won the 2000 Cannes Jury Prize for "Blackboards", a film about the trials of two traveling teachers in Kurdistan.
In Persian literature one can find references to women as far back as Pre-Islamic times.
In some cases, women are mentioned as the potential force behind the failure or success of men.
For example Dehkhoda states that "women are the taste of life" (زن نمک زندگیست), but then warns that some Men may find this taste too strong to bear (کام مرد از این جهت شور است).
In verse, Sa'di rephrases this as:A bad wife in a good man's home,can bring hell down to this Earth.
The honorable, obedient and noble woman,can turn the vagabond into a king.
But many texts elevate the status of women in their writings by using the word "lady" (بانو) instead of "woman" (زن) in their verses, whether narratives or anecdotes.
For example in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh one reads:Kissed the earth at her feet he did, the great hero.
Called onto her he did: "oh highest of all the ladies".
Numerous examples from other poets can be seen as well:It is a tradition of the free to bring Norouz giftsfor the lady of our royalty.---"Khaqani"Have you not heard that dust turns into goldby the work of the Man and the Lady of the House?---"Naser Khosrow"And many creators of classical verse and prose were women themselves as well.
One can mention Qatran Tabrizi, Rabia Balkhi, Táhirih, Simin Behbahani, Simin Daneshvar, Parvin E'tesami, Forough Farrokhzad, Mahsati and Mina Assadi in this group to name nine of them. 
The Chunsa Film Art Awards (also known as the Icheon Chunsa Film Festival) have been presented in South Korea since the founding of the prize by the Korea Film Directors' Society in 1990.
The awards take their name from the pen name of the early Korean actor and filmmaker, Na Woon-gyu.
Prizes are given for Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best New Director, Best New Actor, Best New Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Music/Score, Best Lighting, Best Editing, Best Art Direction, and Technical Award.
Note: the list below is referenced.