8.0
8.0
Close-Up
1990
Writer
Abbas Kiarostami
Directing
Born:June 22, 1940
Died:July 4, 2016(aged 76)
Birthplace:Tehran, Iran
Nationality:Iran
Education:University of Tehran
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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.
Filmography (94 movies)
7.9
7.9
Where Is The Friend's House?
1987
Director
7.7
7.7
Taste of Cherry
1997
Producer
7.7
7.7
Life, and Nothing More…
1992
Writer
7.5
7.5
Homework
1989
Director
7.5
7.5
Ahmad Shamlou: Master Poet of Liberty
1999
as self
7.5
7.5
Project
1997
as Self
7.5
7.5
Willow and Wind
2003
Screenplay
7.4
7.4
Through the Olive Trees
1994
Producer
7.4
7.4
The White Balloon
1995
Writer
7.3
7.3
Ten
2002
Director
7.3
7.3
The Traveler
1974
Writer
7.1
7.1
First Graders
1996
Director
7.1
7.1
The Wind Will Carry Us
1999
Director
7.0
7.0
A Wedding Suit
1976
Screenplay
7.0
7.0
Víctor Erice – Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondences
2007
Director
7.0
7.0
Abbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living
2003
as Self
7.0
7.0
Take Me Home
2016
Director
7.0
7.0
Certified Copy
2010
Director
6.9
6.9
Like Someone in Love
2012
Director
6.8
6.8
Crimson Gold
2003
Writer
6.8
6.8
76 Minutes and 15 seconds with Abbas Kiarostami
2016
as Himself
6.7
6.7
The Report
1977
Screenplay
6.6
6.6
24 Frames
2018
Director
6.5
6.5
The Bread and Alley
1970
Director
6.5
6.5
Tickets
2005
Director
6.5
6.5
First Case, Second Case
1979
Director
6.5
6.5
To Each His Own Cinema
2007
Director
6.4
6.4
What Is Cinema?
2013
as Self
6.4
6.4
Experience
1973
Screenplay
6.3
6.3
10 on Ten
2004
Producer
6.3
6.3
Men at Work
2006
Screenplay
6.2
6.2
Lumière & Company
1995
Director
6.1
6.1
Shirin
2009
Producer
6.1
6.1
Close-Up Long Shot
1996
as Self (archive footage)
6.1
6.1
The Colours
1976
Producer
6.0
6.0
Roads of Kiarostami
2006
Director
6.0
6.0
Guest
2011
as Self
6.0
6.0
Breaktime
1972
Director
6.0
6.0
The Chorus
1982
Writer
6.0
6.0
Safar
1996
Writer
6.0
6.0
Deserted Station
2002
Writer
6.0
6.0
Jahan-Nama Palace
1977
Director
5.8
5.8
How to Make Use of Leisure Time: Painting
1977
Director
5.8
5.8
The Key
2000
Screenplay
5.7
5.7
Chaplin Today: 'The Kid'
2003
as Self
5.7
5.7
Five Dedicated to Ozu
2003
Screenplay
5.7
5.7
Two Solutions to One Problem
1975
Writer
5.6
5.6
A Walk with Kiarostami
2003
as Self
5.6
5.6
So Can I
1975
Screenplay
5.6
5.6
Orderly or Disorderly?
1981
Writer
5.6
5.6
Fellow Citizen
1983
Writer
5.5
5.5
Tribute to the Teachers
1977
Writer
5.4
5.4
Kurosawa's Way
2011
as Self
5.2
5.2
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2013
Director
5.2
5.2
The Birth of Light
1997
Director
5.1
5.1
Concerning Nice
1995
Director
5.0
5.0
A Good Time for Tragedy
2005
as Himself
5.0
5.0
Meeting Leila
2012
Writer
5.0
5.0
Rug
2006
Screenplay
5.0
5.0
Persian Carpet
2007
Director
5.0
5.0
Seagull Eggs
2008
Director
4.8
4.8
Abbas Kiarostami: A Report
2013
as Self
4.8
4.8
Toothache
1983
Screenplay
4.8
4.8
No
2010
Director
4.8
4.8
ABC Africa
2001
Writer
4.7
4.7
Solution No. 1
1978
Writer
4.7
4.7
Final Exam
2017
Screenplay
4.0
4.0
The Poetry of Cinema: Abbas Kiarostami in Conversation with Richard Peña
2014
3.0
3.0
10 Days with Kiarostami
2005
as Self
2.0
2.0
Journey to the Land of the Traveler
2004
Let's See Copia Conforme
2010
as Self
Abbas Kiarostami: Truths and Dreams
1994
as Self
A Week With Kiarostami
1999
as himself
2019
as Self
Behind the Scenes of 'Under the Olive Trees'
1994
as Self
Vida
2014
as Himself
Abbas Kiarostami: Leçon de cinéma
2002
as (himself)
Sodankylä Forever
2010
as Self
Taste of Shirin
2008
as Himself
Bukhara Chronicles
2025
as voice
The Mirror of Possible Worlds: Kiarostami on Aran
2020
On the Road with Kiarostami
2005
as Himself
Leech
2021
as himself (voice)
Kiarostami in Close up
2000
as as Self
Making of 'Like Someone in Love'
2012
as Narrator
In Praise of the Seventy Years Old
2010
as Self
Sohanak
1997
as Self
TropiAbbas
2005
as Abbas Kiarostami
Taste Of Shirin : Making of Abbas Kiarostami's 'Shirin'
TBA
as Abbas Kiarostami
Around Five
2005
Director
Abbas Kiarostami commente son film
2001
Passenger
2016
Director
Venezia 70 - Future Reloaded, Abbas Kiarostami
2013
Director
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