Abbas Kiarostami

Directing·Jun 22, 1940·Tehran, Iran

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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.

Film	Credit
How to Make Use of Leisure Time: Painting2019 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
24 Frames2018 · Director	Director
Take Me Home2016 · Director	Director
Passenger2016 · Director, Writer, Screenplay	Director, Writer, Screenplay
Venice 70: Future Reloaded2013 · Director	Director
Like Someone in Love2012 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
No2010 · Director	Director
Certified Copy2010 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Shirin2009 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Seagull Eggs2008 · Director	Director
To Each His Own Cinema2007 · Director	Director
Persian Carpet2007 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Víctor Erice – Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondences2007 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography	Director, Writer, Director of Photography
Roads of Kiarostami2006 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography	Director, Writer, Director of Photography
IIs There a Place to Approach?2006 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
Tickets2005 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Around Five2005 · Director	Director
10 on Ten2004 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer
Five Dedicated to Ozu2003 · Director, Director of Photography, Screenplay	Director, Director of Photography, Screenplay
Ten2002 · Director, Director of Photography	Director, Director of Photography
ABC Africa2001 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer
The Wind Will Carry Us1999 · Director, Producer, Writer	Director, Producer, Writer
The Birth of Light1997 · Director	Director
Taste of Cherry1997 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer
Lumière & Company1995 · Director	Director
Concerning Nice1995 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Through the Olive Trees1995 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer
Life, and Nothing More…1992 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Close-Up1990 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Homework1989 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Where Is The Friend's House?1987 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
First Graders1984 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Fellow Citizen1983 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Chorus1982 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Orderly or Disorderly?1981 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Toothache1980 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
First Case, Second Case1979 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Solution No. 11978 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
The Report1977 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Jahan-Nama Palace1977 · Director	Director
Tribute to the Teachers1977 · Writer, Producer, Director	Writer, Producer, Director
Colors1976 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer
A Wedding Suit1976 · Director, Screenplay, Producer	Director, Screenplay, Producer
Two Solutions to One Problem1975 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
So Can I1975 · Producer, Director, Screenplay	Producer, Director, Screenplay
The Traveler1974 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer
Experience1973 · Director, Screenplay, Producer	Director, Screenplay, Producer
Breaktime1972 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Bread and Alley1970 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer