Biography
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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Filmography
all 102
Movies 102
self 36
Director 35
Producer 11
Writer 6
Screenplay 4
Narrator 1

Leech (2021)

24 Frames (2017)

Final Exam (2017)

Take Me Home (2016)

Passenger (2016)

Cabeza de gallo (2016)

Vida (2014)

The Girl in the Lemon Factory (2013)

Like Someone in Love (2012)

No (2010)

Certified Copy (2010)

Taste of Shirin (2008)

Shirin (2008)

Seagull Eggs (2008)

Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema (2007)

Persian Carpet (2007)

Víctor Erice – Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondences (2007)

Almost Brooklyn (2007)

Roads of Kiarostami (2006)

Rug (2006)

Men at Work (2006)

White Pages (2005)

Tickets (2005)

TropiAbbas (2005)

Around Five (2005)

Friday's Soldiers (2004)

10 on Ten (2004)

Five Dedicated to Ozu (2003)

Willow and Wind (2003)

Ten (2002)

ABC Africa (2001)

The Key (2000)

The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)

The Birth of Light (1997)

Taste of Cherry (1997)

Safar (1996)

First Graders (1996)

Lumière & Company (1995)

Orderly or Disorderly (1995)

Concerning Nice (1995)

Through the Olive Trees (1994)

Life, and Nothing More… (1992)

Close-Up (1990)

Homework (1989)

Where Is The Friend's House? (1987)

Fellow Citizen (1983)

Toothache (1983)

The Chorus (1982)

First Case, Second Case (1979)

Solution No. 1 (1978)

How to Make Use of Leisure Time: Painting (1977)

Jahan-Nama Palace (1977)

The Report (1977)

Tribute to the Teachers (1977)

The Colours (1976)

A Wedding Suit (1976)

So Can I (1975)

Two Solutions for One Problem (1975)

The Traveler (1974)

The Experience (1973)

Recess (1972)

The Bread and Alley (1970)

Gheisar (1969)

Taste Of Shirin : Making of Abbas Kiarostami's 'Shirin'
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1940-06-22
Deathday2016-07-04 (76 years old)
Birth PlaceTehran, Iran
ChildrenBahman Kiarostami
CitizenshipsIran
Also Known As압바스 키아로스타미, عباس کیارستمی, 阿巴斯·基亚罗斯塔米, 아바스 키아로스타미, Abbas Kiarostami, Kiarostami
Awardshonorary doctor of the Sorbonne Nouvelle University, honorary doctor of Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Officer of the Legion of Honour, Konrad Wolf Prize, Grand Jury Prize of the Venice Film Festival, Austrian Decoration for Science and Art, Praemium Imperiale, Palme d'Or
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