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
voice
2025

Leech
himself (voice)
2021

The Mirror of Possible Worlds: Kiarostami on Aran
2020

Self
2019

76 Minutes and 15 seconds with Abbas Kiarostami
Himself
2016

Vida
Himself
2014

The Poetry of Cinema: Abbas Kiarostami in Conversation with Richard Peña
2014

What Is Cinema?
Self
2013

Abbas Kiarostami: A Report
Self
2013

Making of 'Like Someone in Love'
Narrator
2012

Kurosawa's Way
Self
2011

Guest
Self
2011

Sodankylä Forever
Self
2010

In Praise of the Seventy Years Old
Self
2010

Let's See Copia Conforme
Self
2010

Taste of Shirin
Himself
2008

Víctor Erice – Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondences
himself
2007

Roads of Kiarostami
Self
2006

10 Days with Kiarostami
Self
2005

On the Road with Kiarostami
Himself
2005

TropiAbbas
Abbas Kiarostami
2005

Around Five
himself
2005

A Good Time for Tragedy
Himself
2005

10 on Ten
Self
2004

Journey to the Land of the Traveler
2004

A Walk with Kiarostami
Self
2003

Chaplin Today: 'The Kid'
Self
2003

Abbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living
Self
2003
Parola (su una data)
(1 episode)
2003

Abbas Kiarostami: Leçon de cinéma
(himself)
2002

ABC Africa
Self
2001
Abbas Kiarostami commente son film
2001

Kiarostami in Close up
as Self
2000

A Week With Kiarostami
himself
1999

Ahmad Shamlou: Master Poet of Liberty
self
1999
Sohanak
Self
1997

Project
Self
1997

Behind the Scenes of 'Under the Olive Trees'
Self
1994

Abbas Kiarostami: Truths and Dreams
Self
1994

Through the Olive Trees
Self
1994

Close-Up
Self
1990

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

Homework
Self (uncredited)
1989