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 …

Directed

1. Taste of Cherry (1997) — Director
2. Close-Up (1990) — Director
3. Certified Copy (2010) — Director
4. Where Is The Friend's House? (1987) — Director
5. Like Someone in Love (2012) — Director
6. Through the Olive Trees (1995) — Director
7. The Wind Will Carry Us (1999) — Director
8. Life, and Nothing More… (1992) — Director
9. To Each His Own Cinema (2007) — Director
10. Ten (2002) — Director
11. Lumière & Company (1995) — Director
12. 24 Frames (2018) — Director
13. The Traveler (1974) — Director
14. Tickets (2005) — Director
15. Homework (1989) — Director
16. The Bread and Alley (1970) — Director
17. Two Solutions to One Problem (1975) — Director
18. Shirin (2009) — Director
19. ABC Africa (2001) — Director
20. Breaktime (1972) — Director
21. Orderly or Disorderly? (1981) — Director
22. Five Dedicated to Ozu (2003) — Director
23. The Chorus (1982) — Director
24. Venice 70: Future Reloaded (2013) — Director
25. Experience (1973) — Director
26. A Wedding Suit (1976) — Director
27. The Report (1977) — Director
28. Colors (1976) — Director
29. First Case, Second Case (1979) — Director
30. So Can I (1975) — Director
31. Roads of Kiarostami (2006) — Director
32. Concerning Nice (1995) — Director
33. 10 on Ten (2004) — Director
34. First Graders (1984) — Director
35. Fellow Citizen (1983) — Director
36. Tribute to the Teachers (1977) — Director
37. No (2010) — Director
38. Toothache (1980) — Director
39. Solution No. 1 (1978) — Director
40. The Birth of Light (1997) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Close-Up (1990) — Self
2. Through the Olive Trees (1995) — Self
3. Homework (1989) — Self (uncredited)
4. ABC Africa (2001) — Self
5. What Is Cinema? (2013) — Self
6. Close-Up Long Shot (1996) — Self (archive footage)
7. Kurosawa's Way (2011) — Self
8. Chaplin Today: The Kid (2003) — Self
9. Roads of Kiarostami (2006) — Self
10. 10 on Ten (2004) — Self
11. Guest (2011) — Self
12. 76 Minutes and 15 seconds with Abbas Kiarostami (2016) — Himself
13. A Walk with Kiarostami (2003) — Self
14. Abbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living (2003) — Self
15. Abbas Kiarostami: A Report (2013) — Self
16. Ahmad Shamlou: Master Poet of Liberty (1999) — self
17. Víctor Erice – Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondences (2007) — himself
18. Journey to the Land of the Traveler (2004)
19. 10 Days with Kiarostami (2005) — Self
20. The Poetry of Cinema: Abbas Kiarostami in Conversation with Richard Peña (2014)
21. TropiAbbas (2005) — Abbas Kiarostami
22. Project (1997) — Self
23. Abbas Kiarostami: Truths and Dreams (1994) — Self
24. A Good Time for Tragedy (2005) — Himself
25. On the Road with Kiarostami (2005) — Himself
26. Leech (2021) — himself (voice)
27. Kiarostami in Close up (2000) — as Self
28. In Praise of the Seventy Years Old (2010) — Self
29. Taste of Shirin (2008) — Himself
30. Sohanak (1997) — Self
31. Let's See Copia Conforme (2010) — Self
32. Taste Of Shirin : Making of Abbas Kiarostami's 'Shirin' — Abbas Kiarostami
33. Making of 'Like Someone in Love' (2012) — Narrator
34. Print (2019) — Self
35. Behind the Scenes of 'Under the Olive Trees' (1994) — Self
36. Vida (2014) — Himself
37. Abbas Kiarostami: Leçon de cinéma (2002) — (himself)
38. A Week With Kiarostami (1999) — himself
39. Around Five (2005) — himself
40. The Mirror of Possible Worlds: Kiarostami on Aran (2020)