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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Abbas Kiarostami
actor
2021
Through the Olive Trees
writer
2019
Through the Olive Trees
director
2019
24 Frames
director
2017
24 Frames
writer
2017
The Final Exam
writer
2017
Taste of Cherry
director
2016
Taste of Cherry
writer
2016
Like Someone in Love
director
2014
Like Someone in Love
writer
2014
Certified Copy
writer
2010
Certified Copy
director
2010
Shirin
director
2008
Shirin
writer
2008
To Each His Own Cinema
director
2007
Is There a Place to Approach?
writer
2007
Is There a Place to Approach?
director
2007
Persian Carpet
director
2006
Men at Work
writer
2006
Q3540618
actor
2005
Roads of Kiarostami
director
2005
Tickets
writer
2005
Tickets
director
2005
Roads of Kiarostami
writer
2005
10 on Ten
director
2004
10 on Ten
writer
2004
Ten
director
2003
The Deserted Station
writer
2003
Five
writer
2003
Crimson Gold
writer
2003
Five
director
2003
Abbas Kiarostami: A Report
actor
2003
ABC Africa
actor
2001
ABC Africa
director
2001
ABC Africa
writer
2001
The Wind Will Carry Us
writer
2000
The Wind Will Carry Us
director
2000
Birth of Light
writer
1997
Birth of Light
director
1997
Lumière and Company
director
1995
À propos de Nice, la suite
director
1995
The White Balloon
writer
1995
The Journey
writer
1995
Where is the Friend's Home?
writer
1993
Where is the Friend's Home?
director
1993
Journey to the Land of the Traveller
writer
1993
Life, and Nothing More...
director
1992
Life, and Nothing More...
writer
1992