
Abbas Kiarostami
Biography
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.
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Acting (40 movies)

On the Road with Kiarostami
2005

Leech
2021

Close-Up
1990

Kiarostami in Close up
2000

10 Days with Kiarostami
2005

Ahmad Shamlou: Master Poet of Liberty
1999

Through the Olive Trees
1994

10 on Ten
2004

A Walk with Kiarostami
2003

In Praise of the Seventy Years Old
2010

Chaplin Today: 'The Kid'
2003

Kurosawa's Way
2011

ABC Africa
2001

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

Taste of Shirin
2008

TropiAbbas
2005

Guest
2011

Journey to the Land of the Traveler
2004

Project
1997

Abbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living
2003

Abbas Kiarostami: A Report
2013

76 Minutes and 15 seconds with Abbas Kiarostami
2016

Let's See Copia Conforme
2010

Abbas Kiarostami: Truths and Dreams
1994

Making of 'Like Someone in Love'
2012

What Is Cinema?
2013

2019

Behind the Scenes of 'Under the Olive Trees'
1994

Roads of Kiarostami
2006

Homework
1989

Vida
2014

Abbas Kiarostami: Leçon de cinéma
2002

A Week With Kiarostami
1999

Víctor Erice – Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondences
2007

Around Five
2005

Sodankylä Forever
2010

A Good Time for Tragedy
2005

The Mirror of Possible Worlds: Kiarostami on Aran
2020

Bukhara Chronicles
2025

Close-Up Long Shot
1996
Directing (50 movies)

Close-Up
1990

Taste of Cherry
1997

To Each His Own Cinema
2007

The Wind Will Carry Us
1999

Through the Olive Trees
1994

Certified Copy
2010

Lumière & Company
1995

Where Is The Friend's House?
1987

Life, and Nothing More…
1992

The Traveler
1974

Tickets
2005

Two Solutions to One Problem
1975

Shirin
2009

Like Someone in Love
2012

10 on Ten
2004

Five Dedicated to Ozu
2003

Orderly or Disorderly?
1981

The Bread and Alley
1970

ABC Africa
2001

A Wedding Suit
1976

Breaktime
1972

The Chorus
1982

Homework
1989

Experience
1973

The Report
1977

Roads of Kiarostami
2006

Solution No. 1
1978

First Graders
1996

The Colours
1976

No
2010

Ten
2002
Rug
2006

Jahan-Nama Palace
1977

First Case, Second Case
1979

Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2013

Fellow Citizen
1983

24 Frames
2018

Toothache
1983

How to Make Use of Leisure Time: Painting
1977

So Can I
1975

The Birth of Light
1997

Seagull Eggs
2008

Passenger
2016

Take Me Home
2016

Around Five
2005

Víctor Erice – Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondences
2007

Tribute to the Teachers
1977

Persian Carpet
2007

Concerning Nice
1995

Venezia 70 - Future Reloaded, Abbas Kiarostami
2013