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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 ...
Abbas Kiarostami. Writer: Certified Copy. Abbas Kiarostami was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1940. He graduated from university with a degree in fine arts before starting work as a graphic designer. He then joined the Center for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, where he started a film section, and this started his career as a filmmaker at the age of 30. Since then he has made many movies...
Jun 30, 2024 · Abbas Kiarostami, Iranian filmmaker who was known for experimenting with the boundaries between reality and fiction throughout a four-decade career. His work featured improvised performances, documentary textures, and real-life rhythms. His films included the Koker trilogy and Taste of Cherry.
Year English title Original title Length Notes 1970: The Bread and Alley: Nān o Kūcheh: 10 minutes: Short (debut) featuring a school boy facing an aggressive dog
Considered by many to be one of the finest filmmakers the world has ever seen, Iranian auteur Abbas Kiarostami‘s works have inspired multiple generations of young students and aspiring directors.
Aug 6, 2020 · The Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami is widely regarded as one of the great modern filmmakers, but if you discovered him at a particular peak of his international recognition — when he shared ...
May 31, 2020 · Known for single-handedly putting Iran on the map of international cinema, Abbas Kiarostami’s filmmaking style was shaped by a variety of Persian arts, especially poetry. Reframing the world and the relationships between individuals through his ...
Jul 5, 2016 · The greatest of Kiarostami’s Iranian films, “The Wind Will Carry Us,” from 1999, is the story of an urbane documentary filmmaker who travels with his crew to a remote Kurdish village that is ...
Jul 5, 2016 · Abbas Kiarostami, often hailed as Iran’s greatest filmmaker, whose searching, parable-like dramas of ordinary people and their problems reflected a poetic vision and a philosophical turn of mind ...
Jun 22, 2017 · Before his untimely death in 2016, Abbas Kiarostami was considered by many to be among the world’s greatest living filmmakers. First praised by Akira Kurosawa and Jean-Luc Godard, he later received acclaim from Martin Scorsese, Michael Haneke, Werner Herzog and many, many more.
