Abbas Kiarostami
Iranian film director, screenwriter, photographer and film producer (1940-2016) · Iran · Directors · Died at 76
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Something wrong?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.
A life in dates
Like Someone in LoveFilm, 2012Director, Writer2010Honorary Doctor of the Sorbonne Nouvelle UniversityAward2009“The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual.”In their wordshttps://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/jun/13/abbas-kiarostami-film“From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to tell a story.”In their wordshttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2009/01/a-conversation-with-kiarostami.html
ShirinFilm, 2009Director, Producer2007Honorary Doctor of the University of Toulouse-IIAward2005“Believe me, I am still very surprised that I managed to make that film [Close-Up].”In their wordshttps://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/apr/28/hayfilmfestival2005.guardianhayfestival“My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.”In their wordshttps://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/apr/28/hayfilmfestival2005.guardianhayfestival
TicketsFilm, 2005Director, Writer2004Praemium ImperialeAward2003Honorary Doctor of Ca' Foscari University of VeniceAwardHonorary Doctorate from ENSAwardKonrad Wolf PrizeAwardParola (su una data)Series2002
TenFilm, Director2000
The KeyFilm, Writer1997
Taste of CherryFilm, Director, Writer1994
Through the Olive TreesFilm, Director, Writer1990
Close-UpFilm, Director, Writer1987
Where Is The Friend's House?Film, Director, Writer1979
First Case, Second CaseFilm, Director, Writer1976
A Wedding SuitFilm, Director, Writer1973
ExperienceFilm, Director, Writer1970
The Bread and AlleyFilm, Director, Producer1940Born22 June 1940Also in Deutsch
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In their own words 6
, To be international, you have to first be local. ...
The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual.
From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to tell a story.
Filmography 40
FR24 Frames
VRVenice 70: Future Reloaded
WCWhat Is Cinema?LLLike Someone in Love
KWKurosawa's Way
CCCertified CopySHShirin
TCTo Each His Own CinemaTITickets
OT10 on Ten
CGCrimson Gold
FOFive Dedicated to Ozu
CKChaplin Today: The Kid
WWWillow and WindTETen
AAABC AfricaTKThe Key
TUThe Wind Will Carry UsTCTaste of Cherry
CSClose-Up Long Shot
TBThe White Balloon
LCLumière & Company
CNConcerning NiceTTThrough the Olive Trees
LMLife, and Nothing More…CUClose-Up
HOHomeworkWHWhere Is The Friend's House?
TCThe Chorus
ODOrderly or Disorderly?FCFirst Case, Second Case
TRThe ReportASA Wedding Suit
COColors
TPTwo Solutions to One Problem
SISo Can I
TTThe TravelerEXExperience
BRBreaktimeTAThe Bread and Alley205 credits on file
Television 1
Awards
In their orbit
Child: Bahman KiarostamiAbout this person
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.
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