Abbas Kiarostami

Born

June 22, 1940

Died

July 4, 2016 (76 years old)

Known For

Directing

Place of Birth

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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Bukhara Chronicles

Bukhara Chronicles

voice

0.0

2025

Leech

Leech

himself (voice)

0.0

2021

The Mirror of Possible Worlds: Kiarostami on Aran

The Mirror of Possible Worlds: Kiarostami on Aran

0.0

2020

Print

Print

Self

0.0

2019

76 Minutes and 15 seconds with Abbas Kiarostami

76 Minutes and 15 seconds with Abbas Kiarostami

Himself

6.8

2016

Vida

Vida

Himself

0.0

2014

The Poetry of Cinema: Abbas Kiarostami in Conversation with Richard Peña

The Poetry of Cinema: Abbas Kiarostami in Conversation with Richard Peña

4.0

2014

What Is Cinema?

What Is Cinema?

Self

6.4

2013

Abbas Kiarostami: A Report

Abbas Kiarostami: A Report

Self

4.8

2013

Making of 'Like Someone in Love'

Making of 'Like Someone in Love'

Narrator

0.0

2012

Kurosawa's Way

Kurosawa's Way

Self

5.4

2011

Guest

Guest

Self

6.0

2011

Sodankylä Forever

Sodankylä Forever

Self

0.0

2010

In Praise of the Seventy Years Old

In Praise of the Seventy Years Old

Self

0.0

2010

Let's See Copia Conforme

Let's See Copia Conforme

Self

0.0

2010

Taste of Shirin

Taste of Shirin

Himself

0.0

2008

Víctor Erice – Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondences

Víctor Erice – Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondences

himself

7.0

2007

Roads of Kiarostami

Roads of Kiarostami

Self

6.0

2006

10 Days with Kiarostami

10 Days with Kiarostami

Self

3.0

2005

On the Road with Kiarostami

On the Road with Kiarostami

Himself

0.0

2005

TropiAbbas

TropiAbbas

Abbas Kiarostami

0.0

2005

Around Five

Around Five

himself

0.0

2005

A Good Time for Tragedy

A Good Time for Tragedy

Himself

5.0

2005

10 on Ten

10 on Ten

Self

6.3

2004

Journey to the Land of the Traveler

Journey to the Land of the Traveler

2.0

2004

A Walk with Kiarostami

A Walk with Kiarostami

Self

5.6

2003

Chaplin Today: 'The Kid'

Chaplin Today: 'The Kid'

Self

5.7

2003

Abbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living

Abbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living

Self

7.0

2003

Parola (su una data)

(1 episode)

0.0

2003

Abbas Kiarostami: Leçon de cinéma

Abbas Kiarostami: Leçon de cinéma

(himself)

0.0

2002

ABC Africa

ABC Africa

Self

4.9

2001

Abbas Kiarostami commente son film

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2001

Kiarostami in Close up

Kiarostami in Close up

as Self

0.0

2000

A Week With Kiarostami

A Week With Kiarostami

himself

0.0

1999

Ahmad Shamlou: Master Poet of Liberty

Ahmad Shamlou: Master Poet of Liberty

self

7.5

1999

Sohanak

Self

0.0

1997

Project

Project

Self

7.5

1997

Behind the Scenes of 'Under the Olive Trees'

Behind the Scenes of 'Under the Olive Trees'

Self

0.0

1994

Abbas Kiarostami: Truths and Dreams

Abbas Kiarostami: Truths and Dreams

Self

0.0

1994

Through the Olive Trees

Through the Olive Trees

Self

7.4

1994

Close-Up

Close-Up

Self

7.9

1990

Taste Of Shirin : Making of Abbas Kiarostami's 'Shirin'

Taste Of Shirin : Making of Abbas Kiarostami's 'Shirin'

Abbas Kiarostami

0.0

Homework

Homework

Self (uncredited)

7.3

1989