text: A leper colony in this country is the subject of the film The House is Black.
full_question: A leper colony in this country is the subject of the film The House is Black. In a film set here, the on-trial protagonist states "I asked the Muse why he was hidden. He answered 'It is you who are hidden."' That film set in this country ends with a sequence in which an ex-convict holds a pot of flowers while riding on his friend's motorcycle. A film that started this country's New Wave follows Masht's hay consumption and paranoia about being kidnapped by the Bolouris; that happens after his beloved cow disappears. Nader hires the lower-class Razieh to care for his father, who has Alzheimer's disease in a film from here. Another film set here follows Hossain Sabzian, who conned the Ahankhah family by impersonating its filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf. For 10 points, name this setting of A Separation and Close-Up, whose directors include Asghar Farhadi and Abbas Kiarostami.
first_sentence: A leper colony in this country is the subject of the film The House is Black.
raw_answer: Islamic Republic of Iran