Abbas Kiarostami
Abbas Kiarostami 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 House? (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. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of Iran, and of all time.
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24 Frames
director
2018
What Is Cinema?
actor
2013
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
director
2013
Like Someone in Love
writer
2012
Like Someone in Love
director
2012
Kurosawa's Way
actor
2011
Certified Copy
director
2010
Certified Copy
writer
2010
Shirin
director
2009
To Each His Own Cinema
director
2007
On the Road with Kiarostami
actor
2005
Tickets
writer
2005
Tickets
director
2005
Crimson Gold
writer
2003
Willow and Wind
writer
2003
Chaplin Today: The Kid
actor
2003
Ten
director
2002
The Wind Will Carry Us
director
1999
The Wind Will Carry Us
writer
1999
Taste of Cherry
writer
1997
Taste of Cherry
director
1997
Lumière & Company
director
1995
Through the Olive Trees
actor
1995
Through the Olive Trees
writer
1995
Through the Olive Trees
director
1995
The White Balloon
writer
1995
Abbas Kiarostami: Truths and Dreams
actor
1994
Life, and Nothing More…
writer
1992
Life, and Nothing More…
director
1992
Close-Up
writer
1990
Close-Up
actor
1990
Close-Up
director
1990
Homework
director
1989
Homework
actor
1989
Where Is The Friend's House?
writer
1987
Where Is The Friend's House?
director
1987
First Graders
writer
1984
First Graders
director
1984
Fellow Citizen
writer
1983
Fellow Citizen
director
1983
The Chorus
writer
1982
The Chorus
director
1982
Orderly or Disorderly?
writer
1981
Orderly or Disorderly?
director
1981
Toothache
writer
1980
Toothache
director
1980
First Case, Second Case
writer
1979
First Case, Second Case
director
1979
Solution No. 1
writer
1978
Solution No. 1
director
1978
Tribute to the Teachers
director
1977
The Report
director
1977
How to Make Use of Leisure Time: Painting
writer
1977
The Report
writer
1977
Tribute to the Teachers
writer
1977
The Colours
director
1976
The Colours
writer
1976
A Wedding Suit
writer
1976
A Wedding Suit
director
1976
So Can I
writer
1975
Two Solutions to One Problem
writer
1975
Two Solutions to One Problem
director
1975
So Can I
director
1975
The Traveler
director
1974
The Traveler
writer
1974
The Experience
writer
1973
The Experience
director
1973
The Bread and Alley
director
1970
The Scent of the Pitanga
writer