Abbas Kiarostami
Directing
Born June 22, 1940 in Tehran, 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.
Filmography
Taste Of Shirin : Making of Abbas Kiarostami's 'Shirin'
Abbas Kiarostami
Bukhara Chronicles
voice
Leech
himself (voice)
The Mirror of Possible Worlds: Kiarostami on Aran
Self
24 Frames
You are not alone
Final Exam
76 Minutes and 15 seconds with Abbas Kiarostami
Himself
Take Me Home
Passenger
Cabeza de gallo
Vida
Himself
The Poetry of Cinema: Abbas Kiarostami in Conversation with Richard Peña
What Is Cinema?
Self
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
The Girl in the Lemon Factory
Abbas Kiarostami: A Report
Self
Making of 'Like Someone in Love'
Narrator
Like Someone in Love
Meeting Leila
Kurosawa's Way
Self
Guest
Self
No
Certified Copy
In Praise of the Seventy Years Old
Self
Let's See Copia Conforme
Self
Shirin
Taste of Shirin
Himself
Seagull Eggs
To Each His Own Cinema
Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema
Persian Carpet
Víctor Erice – Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondences
himself
Roads of Kiarostami
Self
Men at Work
10 Days with Kiarostami
Self
On the Road with Kiarostami
Himself
Tickets
TropiAbbas
Abbas Kiarostami
Around Five
himself
A Good Time for Tragedy
Himself
Friday's Soldiers
10 on Ten
Self
Journey to the Land of the Traveler
Five Dedicated to Ozu
A Walk with Kiarostami
Self
Crimson Gold
Willow and Wind
Chaplin Today: The Kid
Self
Abbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living
Self
Farda
Ten
Deserted Station
Abbas Kiarostami: Leçon de cinéma
(himself)
ABC Africa
Self
The Key
Kiarostami in Close up
as Self
A Week With Kiarostami
himself
The Wind Will Carry Us
Ahmad Shamlou: Master Poet of Liberty
self
The Birth of Light
Taste of Cherry
Project
Self
Close-Up Long Shot
Self (archive footage)
Safar
Lumière & Company
Concerning Nice
Through the Olive Trees
Self
The White Balloon
Behind the Scenes of 'Under the Olive Trees'
Self
Abbas Kiarostami: Truths and Dreams
Self
Life, and Nothing More…
Close-Up
Self
Homework
Self (uncredited)
Where Is The Friend's House?
First Graders
Fellow Citizen
The Chorus
Orderly or Disorderly?
Toothache
First Case, Second Case
Solution No. 1
The Report
Jahan-Nama Palace
How to Make Use of Leisure Time: Painting
Tribute to the Teachers
The Colours
A Wedding Suit
Two Solutions to One Problem
So Can I
The Traveler
The Experience
Breaktime
The Bread and Alley
Qeysar