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.
Known For
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- 2021 · Leech as himself (voice)
- 2020 · The Mirror of Possible Worlds: Kiarostami on Aran as
- 2019 · Print as Self
- 2016 · 76 Minutes and 15 seconds with Abbas Kiarostami as Himself
- 2014 · Vida as Himself
- 2014 · The Poetry of Cinema: Abbas Kiarostami in Conversation with Richard Peña as
- 2013 · What Is Cinema? as Self
- 2013 · Abbas Kiarostami: A Report as Self
- 2012 · Making of 'Like Someone in Love' as Narrator
- 2011 · Kurosawa's Way as Self
- 2011 · Guest as Self
- 2010 · Sodankylä Forever as Self
- 2010 · Let's See Copia Conforme as Self
- 2010 · In Praise of the Seventy Years Old as Self
- 2008 · Taste of Shirin as Himself
- 2007 · Víctor Erice – Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondences as himself
- 2006 · Roads of Kiarostami as Self
- 2005 · 10 Days with Kiarostami as Self
- 2005 · On the Road with Kiarostami as Himself
- 2005 · Around Five as himself
- 2005 · TropiAbbas as Abbas Kiarostami
- 2005 · A Good Time for Tragedy as Himself
- 2004 · 10 on Ten as Self
- 2004 · Journey to the Land of the Traveler as
- 2003 · A Walk with Kiarostami as Self
- 2003 · Chaplin Today: 'The Kid' as Self
- 2003 · Abbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living as Self
- 2002 · Abbas Kiarostami: Leçon de cinéma as (himself)
- 2001 · ABC Africa as Self
- 2001 · Abbas Kiarostami commente son film as
- 2000 · Kiarostami in Close up as as Self
- 1999 · A Week With Kiarostami as himself
- 1999 · Ahmad Shamlou: Master Poet of Liberty as self
- 1997 · Sohanak as Self
- 1997 · Project as Self
- 1994 · Behind the Scenes of 'Under the Olive Trees' as Self
- 1994 · Abbas Kiarostami: Truths and Dreams as Self
- 1994 · Through the Olive Trees as Self
- 1990 · Close-Up as Self
- 1989 · Homework as Self (uncredited)
- Future · Taste Of Shirin : Making of Abbas Kiarostami's 'Shirin' as Abbas Kiarostami