Abbas Kiarostami
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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Fotos
Filme (105)
On the Road with Abbas Kiarostami
2026 · Self
Volte Sempre, Abbas!
2026 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited), Screenplay
OTIS
2026 · Thanks
Bukhara Chronicles
2025 · voice
Leech
2021 · Self (voice)
The Mirror of Possible Worlds: Kiarostami on Aran
2020
How to Make Use of Leisure Time: Painting
2019 · Screenplay, Director, Editor
2019 · Self
24 Frames
2018 · Director
You are not alone
2017
Final Exam
2017 · Screenplay
76 Minutes and 15 seconds with Abbas Kiarostami
2016 · Self
Take Me Home
2016 · Director, Cinematography
Passenger
2016 · Director, Writer, Screenplay
Cabeza de gallo
2016 · Supervising Producer
3 Portraits
2016 · Associate Producer
Vida
2014 · Self
The Poetry of Cinema: Abbas Kiarostami in Conversation with Richard Peña
2014
What Is Cinema?
2013 · Self
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2013 · Director
The Girl in the Lemon Factory
2013 · Co-Writer, Editor
Abbas Kiarostami: A Report
2013 · Self
Making of 'Like Someone in Love'
2012 · Narrator
Like Someone in Love
2012 · Director, Screenplay
Meeting Leila
2012 · Writer
Kurosawa's Way
2011 · Self
Guest
2011 · Self
No
2010 · Director
Die Liebesfälscher
2010 · Director, Screenplay
In Praise of the Seventy Years Old
2010 · Self
Let's See Copia Conforme
2010 · Self
Shirin
2009 · Director, Producer, Editor
Taste of Shirin
2008 · Self
Seagull Eggs
2008 · Director
Jedem sein Kino
2007 · Director
Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema
2007 · Cinematography
Persian Carpet
2007 · Director, Screenplay
Víctor Erice – Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondences
2007 · Self, Director, Editor, Writer, Director of Photography
Almost Brooklyn
2007 · Supervising Producer
Roads of Kiarostami
2006 · Self, Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor
Is There a Place to Approach?
2006 · Screenplay, Director
Men at Work
2006 · Screenplay
10 Days with Kiarostami
2005 · Self
On the Road with Kiarostami
2005 · Self
Tickets
2005 · Director, Screenplay
TropiAbbas
2005 · Abbas Kiarostami
Around Five
2005 · Self, Director
A Good Time for Tragedy
2005 · Self
Friday's Soldiers
2004 · Title Designer
10 on Ten
2004 · Self, Director, Cinematography, Producer, Editor, Writer, Sound Director
Journey to the Land of the Traveler
2004
Five Dedicated to Ozu
2003 · Director, Director of Photography, Screenplay, Sound, Editor
A Walk with Kiarostami
2003 · Self
Crimson Gold - Blutrotes Gold
2003 · Screenplay
Willow and Wind
2003 · Screenplay
Chaplin Today: The Kid
2003 · Self
Abbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living
2003 · Self
Farda
2002 · Creative Consultant
Ten
2002 · Editor, Director, Director of Photography
Deserted Station
2002 · Writer
Abbas Kiarostami: Leçon de cinéma
2002 · Self
ABC Africa
2001 · Self, Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
Abbas Kiarostami commente son film
2001
The Key
2000 · Editor, Screenplay
Kiarostami in Close up
2000 · as Self
A Week With Kiarostami
1999 · Self
The Wind Will Carry Us
1999 · Director, Editor, Producer, Writer
Ahmad Shamlou: Master Poet of Liberty
1999 · Self
The Birth of Light
1997 · Director
Taste of Cherry
1997 · Abbas Kiarostami (uncredited), Producer, Writer, Editor, Director
Sohanak
1997 · Self
Project
1997 · Self
Close-Up Long Shot
1996 · Self (archive footage)
Safar
1996 · Writer
Lumière & Company
1995 · Director
Concerning Nice
1995 · Writer, Director
The White Balloon
1995 · Writer
Behind the Scenes of 'Under the Olive Trees'
1994 · Self
Through the Olive Trees
1994 · Abbas Kiarostami (uncredited), Writer, Director, Production Design, Producer, Editor
Abbas Kiarostami: Truths and Dreams
1994 · Self
And Life Goes On
1992 · Director, Writer, Editor
Close-Up
1990 · Abbas Kiarostami, Writer, Director, Editor
Homework
1989 · Self (uncredited), Director, Editor, Writer
Where Is The Friend's House?
1987 · Director, Editor, Screenplay
First Graders
1984 · Director, Writer, Editor
Fellow Citizen
1983 · Editor, Director, Writer
The Chorus
1982 · Director, Writer, Editor
Orderly or Disorderly?
1981 · Director, Editor, Writer
Toothache
1980 · Director, Screenplay, Editor
First Case, Second Case
1979 · Writer, Editor, Director
Solution No. 1
1978 · Writer, Director, Editor
The Report
1977 · Screenplay, Director
Jahan-Nama Palace
1977 · Director
Tribute to the Teachers
1977 · Editor, Producer, Writer, Director
Colors
1976 · Director, Writer, Editor, Producer
A Wedding Suit
1976 · Director, Screenplay, Editor, Producer
Two Solutions to One Problem
1975 · Director, Editor, Writer
So Can I
1975 · Producer, Screenplay, Director, Editor
The Traveler
1974 · Writer, Director, Producer
Experience
1973 · Director, Editor, Screenplay, Producer
Breaktime
1972 · Director, Writer
The Bread and Alley
1970 · Director, Producer
Qeysar
1969 · Title Designer
Taste Of Shirin : Making of Abbas Kiarostami's 'Shirin'
· Abbas Kiarostami
The Scent of the Pitanga
· Original Story