# Abbas Kiarostami

> He built a cinema of questions without answers: conversations in cars, children lost in mountain villages, the line between documentary and fiction blurred until you couldn't tell which mattered more. Kiarostami's films turned everyday Iranian life into allegory so slippery it passed censors and won Cannes.

*Iranian film director, screenwriter, photographer and film producer (1940-2016)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Movie Director ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999))
- **Category:** Directors
- **Born:** 1940-06-22
- **Died:** 2016-07-04
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Abbas Kiarostami started directing in 1970 and spent the next forty-six years making over forty films that redefined what cinema could quietly do. He came up with the Iranian New Wave, a generation that used poetic dialogue and allegory to say what couldn't be said directly. The Koker trilogy and Close-Up in the late eighties and early nineties built his reputation for child protagonists, rural settings, and stories shot like documentaries. Taste of Cherry took the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1997. He kept working — The Wind Will Carry Us in 1999, then Certified Copy in Italy and Like Someone in Love in Japan, his first films outside Iran. By the time he died in 2016, critics had placed Close-Up among the fifty greatest films ever made, and he was spoken of as one of the most influential directors in history.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 60.7 / 100
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- **Historical depth:** 25.3 / 100
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## Platforms
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## Topics
#Actors, #Actor, #Television, #Screenwriting, #Photography, #Film Directing, #Poetry, #Movies

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