1940-06-22 ( 84 years old ) in Tehran, Iran
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.
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Movies
Leech
2021-09-26
Print
2019-01-08
Vida
2014-11-20
What Is Cinema?
2013-09-06
Abbas Kiarostami: A Report
2013-01-01
Making of 'Like Someone in Love'
2012-10-01
Kurosawa's Way
2011-05-13
Guest
2011-03-25
Sodankylä Forever
2010-08-05
In Praise of the Seventy Years Old
2010-01-01
Let's See Copia Conforme
2010-01-01
Taste of Shirin
2008-12-12
Roads of Kiarostami
2006-08-05
10 Days with Kiarostami
2005-06-03
On the Road with Kiarostami
2005-05-01
TropiAbbas
2005-01-01
Around Five
2005-01-01
A Good Time for Tragedy
2005-01-01
10 on Ten
2004-05-26
Journey to the Land of the Traveler
2004-03-18
A Walk with Kiarostami
2003-11-22
Chaplin Today: 'The Kid'
2003-03-02
Abbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living
2003-01-01
Abbas Kiarostami: Leçon de cinéma
2002-01-01
ABC Africa
2001-10-24
Abbas Kiarostami commente son film
2001-01-01
Kiarostami in Close up
2000-01-01
A Week With Kiarostami
1999-11-01
Ahmad Shamlou: Master Poet of Liberty
1999-01-01
Sohanak
1997-01-01
Project
1997-01-01
Behind the Scenes of 'Under the Olive Trees'
1994-12-31
Abbas Kiarostami: Truths and Dreams
1994-11-28
Through the Olive Trees
1994-02-01
Close-Up
1990-05-09
Homework
1989-02-01
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