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Abbas Kiarostami
Director

Abbas Kiarostami

22 Jun 1940Born
4 Jul 2016Died
76Age at death
70Credits

Biography

Abbas Kiarostami (Persian: عباس کیارستمی [ʔæbˌbɒːs kijɒːɾostæˈmi] ; June 22, 1940 – July 4, 2016) was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer, and film producer. An active filmmaker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in the production of over forty films, including shorts and documentaries. 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. 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.

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His films Where Is the Friend's Home? (1987), Close-Up, and The Wind Will Carry Us were ranked among the 100 best foreign films in a 2018 critics' poll by BBC Culture. Close-Up was also ranked one of the 50 greatest movies of all time in the famous decennial Sight & Sound poll conducted in 2012.

Kiarostami had worked extensively as a screenwriter, film editor, art director, and producer and had designed credit titles and publicity material. He was also a poet, photographer, painter, illustrator, and graphic designer. He was part of a generation of filmmakers in the Iranian New Wave, a Persian cinema movement that started in the late 1960s and emphasized the use of poetic dialogue and allegorical storytelling dealing with political and philosophical issues.

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. He is also known for his use of Persian poetry in the dialogue, titles, and themes of his films. 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. The concepts of change and continuity, in addition to the themes of life and death, play a major role in Kiarostami's works.

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Known for

Filmography

  1. TBATaste Of Shirin : Making of Abbas Kiarostami's 'Shirin'Film: Abbas Kiarostami
  2. 2026Volte Sempre, Abbas!Film: Screenplay
  3. 2025Bukhara ChroniclesFilm: voice
  4. 2020The Mirror of Possible Worlds: Kiarostami on AranFilm
  5. 2019How to Make Use of Leisure Time: PaintingFilm: Screenplay, Director
  6. 201824 FramesFilm: Director
  7. 2017You are not aloneFilm
  8. 2017Final ExamFilm: Screenplay
  9. 2016Take Me HomeFilm: Director
  10. 2016PassengerFilm: Director, Writer, Screenplay
  11. 2014The Poetry of Cinema: Abbas Kiarostami in Conversation with Richard PeñaFilm
  12. 2013Venice 70: Future ReloadedFilm: Director
  13. 2012Making of 'Like Someone in Love'Film: Narrator
  14. 2012Like Someone in LoveFilm: Director, Screenplay
  15. 2012Meeting LeilaFilm: Writer
  16. 2010NoFilm: Director
  17. 2010Certified CopyFilm: Director, Screenplay
  18. 2009ShirinFilm: Director
  19. 2008Seagull EggsFilm: Director
  20. 2007To Each His Own CinemaFilm: Director
  21. 2007Persian CarpetFilm: Director, Screenplay
  22. 2007Víctor Erice – Abbas Kiarostami: CorrespondencesFilm: Director, Writer
  23. 2006Roads of KiarostamiFilm: Director, Writer
  24. 2006Is There a Place to Approach?Film: Screenplay, Director
  25. 2006Men at WorkFilm: Screenplay
  26. 2005TicketsFilm: Director, Screenplay
  27. 2005TropiAbbasFilm: Abbas Kiarostami
  28. 2005Around FiveFilm: Director
  29. 200410 on TenFilm: Director, Writer
  30. 2004Journey to the Land of the TravelerFilm
  31. 2003Five Dedicated to OzuFilm: Director, Screenplay
  32. 2003Crimson GoldFilm: Screenplay
  33. 2003Willow and WindFilm: Screenplay
  34. 2002TenFilm: Director
  35. 2002Deserted StationFilm: Writer
  36. 2002Abbas Kiarostami: Leçon de cinémaFilm: (himself)
  37. 2001ABC AfricaFilm: Director, Writer
  38. 2001Abbas Kiarostami commente son filmFilm
  39. 2000The KeyFilm: Screenplay
  40. 2000Kiarostami in Close upFilm: as Self
  41. 1999The Wind Will Carry UsFilm: Director, Writer
  42. 1997The Birth of LightFilm: Director
  43. 1997Taste of CherryFilm: Writer, Director
  44. 1996SafarFilm: Writer
  45. 1995Lumière & CompanyFilm: Director
  46. 1995Concerning NiceFilm: Writer, Director
  47. 1995The White BalloonFilm: Writer
  48. 1994Through the Olive TreesFilm: Writer, Director
  49. 1992Life, and Nothing More…Film: Director, Writer
  50. 1990Close-UpFilm: Writer, Director
  51. 1989HomeworkFilm: Director, Writer
  52. 1987Where Is The Friend's House?Film: Director, Screenplay
  53. 1984First GradersFilm: Director, Writer
  54. 1983Fellow CitizenFilm: Director, Writer
  55. 1982The ChorusFilm: Director, Writer
  56. 1981Orderly or Disorderly?Film: Director, Writer
  57. 1980ToothacheFilm: Director, Screenplay
  58. 1979First Case, Second CaseFilm: Writer, Director
  59. 1978Solution No. 1Film: Writer, Director
  60. 1977The ReportFilm: Screenplay, Director
  61. 1977Jahan-Nama PalaceFilm: Director
  62. 1977Tribute to the TeachersFilm: Writer, Director
  63. 1976ColorsFilm: Director, Writer
  64. 1976A Wedding SuitFilm: Director, Screenplay
  65. 1975Two Solutions to One ProblemFilm: Director, Writer
  66. 1975So Can IFilm: Screenplay, Director
  67. 1974The TravelerFilm: Writer, Director
  68. 1973ExperienceFilm: Director, Screenplay
  69. 1972BreaktimeFilm: Director, Writer
  70. 1970The Bread and AlleyFilm: Director

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