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A Cooler Climate: A Conversation with James Ivory

NEW YORK, April 3, 2025 — Oscar-winning filmmaker James Ivory talks about his 2022 film A Cooler Climate, which reveals never-seen-before footage captured during his life-changing trip to Afghanistan in 1960. Asia Society film curator Inney Prakash moderates the conversation. (19 min., 47 sec.)

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