Abbas Kiarostami

 

    Born in Tehran, Iran, in 1940. He graduated from university with a degree in fine arts before starting work as a graphic designer. He then joined the Center for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, where he started a film section, and this started his career as a filmmaker at the age of 30. Since then he has made many movies and has become one of the most important figures in contemporary Iranian film. He is also a major figure in the arts world, and has had numerous gallery exhibitions of his photography, short films and poetry. He is an iconic figure for what he has done, and he has achieved it all by believing in the arts and the creativity of his mind. 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 includes pioneering directors such as Bahram Beyzai, Nasser Taghvai, Ali Hatami, Masoud Kimiai, Dariush Mehrjui, Sohrab Shahid-Saless and Parviz Kimiavi. These filmmakers share many common techniques including the use of poetic dialogue and allegorical storytelling dealing with political and philosophical issues.

24 Frames

Produced by : Charles Gillibert, Ahmad Kiarostami

Written by : Abbas Kiarostami

Production companies : CG Cinema, Kiarostami Foundation

Release date : 23 May 2017

Running time : 114 minutes

Country : Iran, France

Language : Persian

A Wedding Suit

Written by : Abbas Kiarostami,Parviz Davayi

Release date : 1976

Running time : 57 minutes

Country : Iran

Language : Persian

Certified Copy

Written by : Abbas Kiarostami

Starring : Juliette Binoche, William Shimell

Cinematography : Luca Bigazzi

Edited by : Bahman Kiarostami

Production company : MK2

Release date : 18 May 2010

Running time : 106 minutes

Country : France, Iran

Language : French,English,Italian

Close-up

Written by : Abbas Kiarostami

Starring : Hossain Sabzian, Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Cinematography : Ali Reza Zarrindast

Edited by : Abbas Kiarostami

Production company : Kanoon

Produced by : Ali Reza Zarrin

Distributed by : Celluloid Dreams

Release date : 1990

Running time : 98 min.

Country : Iran

Language : Persian

Five Dedicated to Ozu

Written by : Abbas Kiarostami

Release date : 2003, Iran

Running time : 74 minutes

Country : Iran

Language : No dialogue

 Homework

Written by : Abbas Kiarostami

Cinematography : Iraj Safavi, Ali Asghar Mirzai

Edited by : Abbas Kiarostami

Production company : Kanoon

Produced by : Ali Reza Zarrin

Release date : 1989

Running time : 86 minutes

Country : Iran

Language : Persian

Life and nothing more…

Written by : Abbas Kiarostami

Cinematography : Homayun Payvar

Edited by : Abbas Kiarostami, Changiz Sayad

Produced by : Ali Reza Zarrin

Release date : 1992

Running time : 95 minutes

Country : Iran

Language : Persian

Like someone in love

Written by : Abbas Kiarostami

Cinematography : Katsumi Yanagishima

Edited by : Bahman Kiarostami

Production company : MK2, Eurospace

Produced by : Kenzo Horikoshi, Marin Karmitz

Release date : May 20, 2012

Running time : 109 minutes

Country : Japan, France

Language : Japanese

Shirin

Starring : Juliette Binoche

Hedieh Tehrani, Mahnaz Afshar

Release date September : 2008

Running time : 92 minutes

Country : Iran

Language : Persian

Taste of cherry

Written by : Abbas Kiarostami

Cinematography : Homayun Payvar

Distributed by : Zeitgeist Films

Produced by Abbas Kiarostami

Release date : May, 1997

Running time : 95 minutes

Country : Iran

Language : Persian

Ten

Written by : Abbas Kiarostami

Starring Mania Akbari, Amin Maher

Release date : May 20, 2002

Running time : 89 minutes

Country : Iran

Language : Persian

The experience

Written by : Abbas Kiarostami and Amir Naderi

Release date : 1973

Running time : 60 minutes

Country : Iran

Language : Persian

The report

Written by : Abbas Kiarostami

Release date : 1977

Running time : 112 min.

Language : Persian

The wind will carry us

Written by : Abbas Kiarostami

Starring : Behzad Dorani

Cinematography : Mahmoud Kalari

Distributed by : New Yorker Films (USA)

Release date : 6 September 1999

Running time : 118 min.

Language : Persian

Through the olive trees

Written by : Abbas Kiarostami

Cinematography : Mahmoud Kalari

Distributed by : New Yorker Films (USA)

Produced by : Abbas Kiarostami

Release date : 6 September 1999

Running time : 118 min.

Language : Persian

Tickets

Directed by : Ermanno Olmi, Abbas Kiarostami and Ken Loach

Produced by : Carlo Cresto-Dina, Babak Karimi, Rebecca O'Brien, Domenico Procacci

Written by : Ermanno Olmi, Abbas Kiarostami and Paul Laverty

Release date : 2005

Running time : 112 min

Language : Italian, English, Albanian, German

Where is my friend’s house

Written by : Abbas Kiarostami

Cinematography : Farhad Saba

Edited by : Abbas Kiarostami

Produced by : Ali Reza Zarrin

Release date : February 1987

Running time : 83 minutes

Country : Iran

Language : Persian

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