Abbas Kiarostami (Persian: عباس کیارستمی [ʔæbˌbɒːs kijɒːɾostæˈmi] ; June 22, 1940 – July 4, 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.
Abbas Kiarostami (Persian: عباس کیارستمی [ʔæbˌbɒːs kijɒːɾostæˈmi] ; June 22, 1940 – July 4, 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.
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Filmography (Movies)
Bukhara Chronicles
Character:voice
Release Date:07/06/2025
Leech
Character:himself (voice)
Release Date:26/09/2021
The Mirror of Possible Worlds: Kiarostami on Aran
Character:
Release Date:04/11/2020
Character:Self
Release Date:08/01/2019
76 Minutes and 15 seconds with Abbas Kiarostami
Character:Himself
Release Date:31/08/2016
Vida
Character:Himself
Release Date:20/11/2014
The Poetry of Cinema: Abbas Kiarostami in Conversation with Richard Peña
Character:
Release Date:22/07/2014
What Is Cinema?
Character:Self
Release Date:06/09/2013
Abbas Kiarostami: A Report
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/2013
Making of 'Like Someone in Love'
Character:Narrator
Release Date:01/10/2012
Kurosawa's Way
Character:Self
Release Date:13/05/2011
Guest
Character:Self
Release Date:25/03/2011
Sodankylä Forever
Character:Self
Release Date:05/08/2010
In Praise of the Seventy Years Old
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/2010
Let's See Copia Conforme
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/2010
Taste of Shirin
Character:Himself
Release Date:12/12/2008
Víctor Erice – Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondences
Character:himself
Release Date:05/05/2007
Roads of Kiarostami
Character:Self
Release Date:05/08/2006
10 Days with Kiarostami
Character:Self
Release Date:03/06/2005
On the Road with Kiarostami
Character:Himself
Release Date:01/05/2005
TropiAbbas
Character:Abbas Kiarostami
Release Date:01/01/2005
Around Five
Character:himself
Release Date:01/01/2005
A Good Time for Tragedy
Character:Himself
Release Date:01/01/2005
10 on Ten
Character:Self
Release Date:26/05/2004
Journey to the Land of the Traveler
Character:
Release Date:18/03/2004
A Walk with Kiarostami
Character:Self
Release Date:22/11/2003
Chaplin Today: The Kid
Character:Self
Release Date:02/03/2003
Abbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/2003
Abbas Kiarostami: Leçon de cinéma
Character:(himself)
Release Date:01/01/2002
ABC Africa
Character:Self
Release Date:24/10/2001
Abbas Kiarostami commente son film
Character:
Release Date:01/01/2001
Kiarostami in Close up
Character:as Self
Release Date:01/01/2000
A Week With Kiarostami
Character:himself
Release Date:01/11/1999
Ahmad Shamlou: Master Poet of Liberty
Character:self
Release Date:01/01/1999
Sohanak
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1997
Project
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1997
Close-Up Long Shot
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:15/11/1996
Behind the Scenes of 'Under the Olive Trees'
Character:Self
Release Date:31/12/1994
Abbas Kiarostami: Truths and Dreams
Character:Self
Release Date:28/11/1994
Through the Olive Trees
Character:Self
Release Date:01/02/1994
Close-Up
Character:Self
Release Date:01/02/1990
Homework
Character:Self (uncredited)
Release Date:01/02/1989
Television Appearances
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