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Abbas Kiarostami

Abbas Kiarostami

Abbas Kiarostami (Persian: عباس کیارستمی [ʔæbˌbɒːs kijɒːɾostæˈmi] ; 22 June 1940 – 4 July 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. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Abbas Kiarostami, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

  • Close-Up
  • Taste of Cherry
  • To Each His Own Cinema
  • The Wind Will Carry Us
  • Through the Olive Trees
  • Certified Copy
  • Lumière & Company
  • Where Is The Friend's House?
  • Life, and Nothing More…
  • The Traveler
  • Tickets
  • Two Solutions for One Problem
  • Shirin
  • Like Someone in Love
  • 10 on Ten
  • Five Dedicated to Ozu
  • Orderly or Disorderly
  • The Bread and Alley
  • ABC Africa
  • A Wedding Suit
  • Recess
  • The Chorus
  • The Experience
  • Homework
  • The Report
  • Roads of Kiarostami
  • First Graders
  • Solution No. 1
  • The Colours
  • No
  • Ten
  • Rug
  • Jahan-Nama Palace
  • First Case, Second Case
  • A Conversation on The Report
  • Venice 70: Future Reloaded
  • Fellow Citizen
  • 24 Frames
  • Toothache
  • So Can I
  • How to Make Use of Leisure Time: Painting
  • The Birth of Light
  • Seagull Eggs
  • Passenger
  • Take Me Home
  • Around Five
  • Víctor Erice – Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondences
  • Tribute to the Teachers
  • Persian Carpet
  • Concerning Nice
  • Venezia 70 Future Reloaded - Abbas Kiarostami
  • Where Is My Romeo?