Question: Are director of film The Attic (1980 film) and director of film Toothache (film) both from the same country?

<P0-S0> It is also known as Dental Hygiene which has let to some confusion and resulted in the film being listed under the latter title as an additional entry in some online filmographies, e.g. on IMD b. <P0-S1> Shot on 16mm," Toothache" is the antepenultimate of the odd dozen pedagogical short movies that Kiarostami made at the film- making department of the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults( Kanoon) between 1970 and 1982. <P0-S2> The film, concerned with teaching children why they must care for their teeth and brush them regularly," is certainly the longest, the most didactic in tone and the most highly structured of all Kiarostami's shorts." <P0-S3> To illustrate its point, the film contains ten animated shots, handled by and Mehdi Samakar, showing, among other things, little green tooth trolls pickaxing holes in a number of teeth. <P0-S4> Toothache is a 1980 Iranian short educational film written, directed and edited by Abbas Kiarostami. <P0-S5> " Toothache" is, however, not the first of Kiarostami's Kanoon films to use animation—that was" So Can I"( 1975). <SEP> <P1-S0> An active film- maker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in the production of over forty films, including shorts and documentaries. <P1-S1> Kiarostami attained critical acclaim for directing the" Koker" trilogy( 1987– 1994)," Close- Up"( 1990)," The Wind Will Carry Us"( 1999), and" Taste of Cherry"( 1997), which was awarded the Palme d' Or at the Cannes Film Festival that year. <P1-S2> In later works," Certified Copy"( 2010) and" Like Someone in Love"( 2012), he filmed for the first time outside Iran: in Italy and Japan, respectively. <P1-S3> His films" Where Is the Friend ’s Home? Close- Up", and" The Wind Will Carry Us" were ranked among the 100 best foreign films in a 2018 critics' poll by BBC Culture. <P1-S4> " Close- Up" was also ranked one of the 50 greatest movies of all time in the famous decennial" Sight& Sound" poll conducted in 2012. <P1-S5> Abbas Kiarostami( 22 June 1940 – 4 July 2016) was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer, and film producer. <P1-S6> Kiarostami had worked extensively as a screenwriter, film editor, art director and producer and had designed credit titles and publicity material. <P1-S7> He was also a poet, photographer, painter, illustrator, and graphic designer. <P1-S8> He was part of a generation of filmmakers in the Iranian New Wave, a Persian cinema movement that started in the late 1960s and includes pioneering directors such as Bahram Beyzai, Nasser Taghvai, Ali Hatami, Masoud Kimiai, Dariush Mehrjui, Sohrab Shahid- Saless and Parviz Kimiavi. <P1-S9> These filmmakers share many common techniques including the use of poetic dialogue and allegorical storytelling dealing with political and philosophical issues. <P1-S10> Kiarostami had a reputation for using child protagonists, for documentary- style narrative films, for stories that take place in rural villages, and for conversations that unfold inside cars, using stationary mounted cameras. <P1-S11> He is also known for his use of Persian poetry in the dialogue, titles, and themes of his films. <P1-S12> Kiarostami's films contain a notable degree of ambiguity, an unusual mixture of simplicity and complexity, and often a mix of fictional and documentary elements. <P1-S13> The concepts of change and continuity, in addition to the themes of life and death, play a major role in Kiarostami's works. <SEP> <P2-S0> The Attic is a 1980 American horror- thriller film directed by George Edwards and starring Carrie Snodgress. <SEP> <P3-S0> George Lockett Edwards III( July 19, 1924 – November 27, 1991), the son of George Lockett Edwards Jr. and Columbia Maypole, was an American producer and writer best known for his work with Curtis Harrington. <SEP> <P4-S0> Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects. <SEP> <P5-S0> Rachel Feldman( born August 22, 1954) is an American director of film and television and screenwriter of television films.