Abbas Kiarostami

Known for DirectingBorn 1940-06-22Died 2016-07-04Tehran, Iran

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. 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.Read more

Movies & web series

TropiAbbas

Farda

Close-Up

Where Is The Friend's House?

Taste of Cherry

Ahmad Shamlou: Master Poet of Liberty

Life, and Nothing More…

Willow and Wind

Project

Safar

Through the Olive Trees

The White Balloon

Homework

Ten

Take Me Home

The Wind Will Carry Us

Certified Copy

Víctor Erice – Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondences

First Graders

Abbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living

Like Someone in Love

76 Minutes and 15 seconds with Abbas Kiarostami

A Wedding Suit

Abbas Kiarostami: Truths and Dreams

The Traveler

Crimson Gold

First Case, Second Case

24 Frames

Men at Work

What Is Cinema?

Qeysar

To Each His Own Cinema

10 on Ten

Tickets

How to Make Use of Leisure Time: Painting

The Experience

Shirin

The Report

Lumière & Company

The Bread and Alley

Close-Up Long Shot

The Birth of Light

The Key

Deserted Station

The Colours

Guest

Roads of Kiarostami

Chaplin Today: The Kid