Abbas Kiarostami
Also Known As: 압바스 키아로스타미, عباس کیارستمی, 阿巴斯·基亚罗斯塔米, 아바스 키아로스타미, Abbas Kiarostami, Kiarostami
Biography: Abbas Kiarostami (Persian: عباس کیارستمی [ʔæbˌbɒːs kijɒːɾostæˈmi] ; 22 June 1940 – 4 July 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 graphic designer. He was part of a generation of filmmakers in the Iranian New Wave, a Persian cinema movement that started in the late 1960s and emphasized the use of poetic dialogue and allegorical storytelling dealing with political and philosophical issues. Kiarostami had a reputation for using child protagonists, for documentary-style narrative films, for stories that take place in rural villages, and for conversations that unfold inside cars, using stationary mounted cameras. He is also known for his use of Persian poetry in the dialogue, titles, and themes of his films. Kiarostami's films contain a notable degree of ambiguity, an unusual mixture of simplicity and complexity, and often a mix of fictional and documentary elements. The concepts of change and continuity, in addition to the themes of life and death, play a major role in Kiarostami's works. Description above from the Wikipedia article Abbas Kiarostami, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Tehran, Iran
Adult: No
Birthday: June 22, 1940
Age: 84 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: July 04, 2016
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On the Road with Kiarostami
Overview: Abbas Kiarostami is the most acclaimed Iranian film director whose films have won prizes all around the world. In this film he gives a rare and frank interview about his work, and journeys out of Tehran to meet Babk Ahmadpoor the now grown up star of his famous trilogy which started with Where is the Friends House. On the journey Kiarostami picks up the camera himself, producing images of pure poetry.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-01
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Leech
Overview: Leeches a film by bahman kiarostami
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2021-09-26
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Close-Up
Overview: This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1990-05-09
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Kiarostami in Close up
Overview: A documentary that focuses on Abbas Kiarostami's cinematic philosophy talking to himself and other figures, and also seeks the opinion about his works both inside and outside his homeland.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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10 Days with Kiarostami
Overview: 10 Days with Kiarostami
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-06-03
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Ahmad Shamlou: Master Poet of Liberty
Overview: A documentary about the most important modern Iranian poet and intellectual icon. Iranian poet Ahmad Shamlou talks about his poetry, the world of poetry, and his life. Filmed over a two year period from 1996 to 1998.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Through the Olive Trees
Overview: Complications arise in a director's attempt to film a scene in Life, and Nothing More... (1992).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1994-02-01
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10 on Ten
Overview: "10 on Ten" is a 2004 Iranian documentary film directed by Abbas Kiarostami. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. Looking to his own art for inspiration, Abbas Kiarostami reflects on his techniques of filming and how he taped certain sequences in "Ten" in 2001.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2004-05-26
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A Walk with Kiarostami
Overview: U.S.-based film professor Jamsheed Akrami talks to Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami in an inpromptu video interview, which offers a frank and funny view of Kiarostami rarely seen before.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-22
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In Praise of the Seventy Years Old
Overview: This interview-based documentary is made on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Aydin Aghdashloo, Mohammad Ehsaei and Abbas Kiarostami, and deals with "aging" from the point of view of these three prominent friends and artists.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Chaplin Today: 'The Kid'
Overview: This documentary is featured on the two-disc Chaplin Collection DVD for "The Kid" (1921), released in 2004.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-02
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Kurosawa's Way
Overview: Eleven major film makers from Europe, America and Asia talk about Akira Kurosawa and discover surprising influences on their own work.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-05-13
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ABC Africa
Overview: Abbas Kiarostami shoots a documentary about the AIDS crisis in Uganda.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-24
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The Poetry of Cinema: Abbas Kiarostami in Conversation with Richard Peña
Overview: Onstage interview with filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami and Richard Richard Peña
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Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2014-07-22
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Taste of Shirin
Overview: A short documentary about the making of Abbas Kiarostami's 'Shirin'.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2008-12-12
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Sohanak
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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TropiAbbas
Overview: An Iranian filmmaker, a female taxi driver and a class a about cinema.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Guest
Overview: Filmmaker José Luis Guerin documents his experience during a year of traveling as a guest of film festivals to present his previous film. What emerges is a wonderfully humane and sincere portrayal of the people that he meets when he goes off the beaten track in some of the world's major cities.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-25
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Journey to the Land of the Traveler
Overview: Twenty years after The Traveler was made, Kiarostami's son filmed his father as he reunited with the film's child star, now in his 30s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-03-18
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Project
Overview: A thirty-nine minute sketch film for TASTE OF CHERRY that Abbas Kiarostani made with his son Bahman Kiarostami.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Abbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living
Overview: Through an interview with Kiarostami in the Aran Islands and interviews with film critics and scholars at Cannes, the director examines Kiarostami's themes and methods. The director also profiles Kiarostami as a poet and a photographer.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Abbas Kiarostami: A Report
Overview: A look at the formation of the career of Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2013-01-01
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76 Minutes and 15 seconds with Abbas Kiarostami
Overview: Kiarostami as we have never really known him before, despite the transformative power of his many movies. Filmmaker and close friend Samadian avoids the talking heads of so many artistic memoirs to offer more candid clips of Kiarostami the man: lover of poetry, convivial with friends, engaging landscapes on and off screen, laughing with other artists. The artist and visionary emerges more clearly but so does a loving, wondrous man whom we will miss now as much as the auteur.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2016-08-31
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Let's See Copia Conforme
Overview: A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Abbas Kiarostami’s "Certified Copy" (2010).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Taste Of Shirin : Making of Abbas Kiarostami's 'Shirin'
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
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Abbas Kiarostami: Truths and Dreams
Overview: A documentary about Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami first aired on the French television series Cinema de Notre Temps.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-11-28
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Making of 'Like Someone in Love'
Overview: Documentary with behind-the-scenes footage on the set of Abbas Kiarostomi's 2012 film "Like Someone in Love" with narration by the director.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-01
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What Is Cinema?
Overview: Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh, David Lynch, and Jonas Mekas, Oscar-winning filmmaker Chuck Workman shows what these filmmakers and others do that can't be expressed in words - but only in cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-06
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Overview: A short documentary from footage of the making of Kiarostami's 2017 film 24 FRAMES.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2019-01-08
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Behind the Scenes of 'Under the Olive Trees'
Overview: A documentary by Hamideh Sharif Rad about Abbas Kiarostami's "Through the Olive Trees" (1994).
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1994-12-31
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Roads of Kiarostami
Overview: Static shots of his photos alternate with footage of director Abbas Kiarostami's car winding through mountain roads, as the Iranian filmmaker muses in voice-over on the significance of the journey and on the path of his work and Persian literature as a whole.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2006-08-05
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Homework
Overview: Young male students at a local Iranian school are asked about their feelings on homework.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1989-02-01
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Vida
Overview: Acclaimed Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami, delivers a film workshop in Bogotá, the filmmakers conclude by proposing a short film in 10 days. Diego, one of the directors of the workshop, as scouting, meets a young shy librarian named Vida , who dreams of being an actress.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-11-20
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Abbas Kiarostami: Leçon de cinéma
Overview: Abbas Kiarostami about the making of "The Wind Will Carry Us"
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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A Week With Kiarostami
Overview: Mohara Yuji's documentary A Week with Kiarostami, filmed on the set of The Wind Will Carry Us. A photographic diary, the film plunges us into the beating heart of a shoot whose story plays out to the rhythm of the relationships between actors and local people. A team led by Yuji Mohara traveled to Iran to a portrait of the Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostam. Mohara met Kiarostami in a village on the set of Kiarostami's The Wind Will Carry Us. A Week with Kiarostami is a cinematic diary of the set, and opened the door to the world of this poetic and mysterious director. Seven days which allow us to this corner of Iran to discover, and the way in which Kiarostami these dreams; seven chronicles we do pay up in the beating heart of a rotation whose story the rhythm of the relationships between the actors and villagers follows.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-01
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Víctor Erice – Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondences
Overview: Relationships and multiple influences between two great directors of modern cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-05-05
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Around Five
Overview: Abbas Kiarostami on his film Five Dedicated to Ozu.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Sodankylä Forever
Overview: The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets. Founded by Aki and Mika Kaurismäki along with Anssi Mänttäri and Peter von Bagh in 1985, the festival has played host to an international who’s who of directors and each day begins with a two-hour discussion. To mark the festival’s silver anniversary, festival director Peter von Bagh edited together highlights from these dialogues to create an epic four-part choral history of cinema drawn from the anecdotes, insights, and wisdom of his all-star cast: Coppola, Fuller, Forman, Chabrol, Corman, Demy, Kieslowski, Kiarostami, Varda, Oliveira, Erice, Rouch, Gilliam, Jancso — and 64 more. Ranging across innumerable topics (war, censorship, movie stars, formative influences, America, neorealism) these voices, many now passed away, engage in a personal dialogue across the years that’s by turns charming, profound, hilarious and moving.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2010-08-05
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A Good Time for Tragedy
Overview: A documentary dealing with the life of Ahmadreza Ahmadi, an Iranian Poet.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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The Mirror of Possible Worlds: Kiarostami on Aran
Overview: “Nature, the inexhaustible resource of encounters worthy of speechless communication,” declares Abbas Kiarostami in Fergus Daly’s beautiful journey. How can cinema free itself of its anthropocentric and industrial determinations? Each of the films presented here offers a solution, be it iconographic or technical, whether it involves renewing a representation or producing one’s own film reels, dancing with one’s whole body with nature as one’s partner or imagining a sound as animals might perceive it.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-11-04
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Abbas Kiarostami commente son film
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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