Abbas Kiarostami

Directing · Born 1940-06-22 in Tehran, Iran

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…

Filmography

• Close-Up as Self
• 10 Days with Kiarostami as Self
• Ahmad Shamlou: Master Poet of Liberty as self
• Through the Olive Trees as Self
• 10 on Ten as Self
• A Walk with Kiarostami as Self
• Chaplin Today: The Kid as Self
• Kurosawa's Way as Self
• ABC Africa as Self
• The Poetry of Cinema: Abbas Kiarostami in Conversation with Richard Peña