عباس کیارستمی `Abbās Kiyārostamī
Born	Abbas Kiarostami June 22, 1940 (1940-06-22) (age 67) Tehran, Iran
Years active	1962 - present

Abbas Kiarostami (Persian: عباس کیارستمی `Abbās Kiyārostamī; born 22 June 1940) is an internationally acclaimed Iranian film director, screenwriter, and film producer. Events 217 BC - Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom. Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Tehran (or Teheran) ( Persian: تهران Tehrān) is the capital and largest City of Iran, and the administrative center of For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Iran topics. Events 217 BC - Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom. Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Iran topics. A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a Film. Screenwriters or scenarists are Scriptwriters who write the Screenplays from which Films and Television programs are made A film producer is a person who creates the conditions for making movies. ^[1][2][3] An active filmmaker since 1970, Kiarostami has been involved in over forty films, including shorts and documentaries. Short subject is a format description originally coined in the North American Film industry in the early period of cinema. Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt in one fashion or another to " Document " reality Kiarostami attained critical acclaim for directing the Koker trilogy, A Taste of Cherry, and The Wind Will Carry Us. Koker trilogy refers to a series of three films directed by Abbas Kiarostami. Taste of Cherry ( Ta'm-e gīlās) is a 1997 film by Iranian Filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami. The Wind Will Carry Us ( Bād mā rā khāhad bord) is a 1999 Iranian film by Abbas Kiarostami.

Kiarostami has worked extensively as a screenwriter, film editor, art director and producer and has designed credit titles and publicity material. See also Pre-production Screenwriting A screenplay or script is a written plan authored by a Screenwriter, for a Film or Television Film editing is an art of storytelling practiced by connecting two or more shots together to form a sequence, and the subsequent connecting of sequences to form an The term art director is a blanket title for a variety of similar job functions in Advertising, Publishing, film and Television, the Internet He is also a poet, photographer, painter, illustrator, and graphic designer. A poet is a person who writes Poetry. Etymology From the Ancient greek: ποιέω, poieō: "I make or compose" A photographer is a person who takes a Photograph using a Camera. Painting (pān'tīng in Art, is the practice of applying Color to a Surface (support base such as e For the vector -based drawing program by Adobe Systems, see Adobe Illustrator. A graphic designer (also known as a graphic artist and communication designer) is a professional within the Graphic design and Graphic arts industry

Kiarostami is 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 Forough Farrokhzad, Sohrab Shahid Saless, Bahram Beizai, and Parviz Kimiavi. The cinema of Iran (or Persian cinema) is a flourishing film industry with a long history Forugh Farrokhzad (فروغ فرخزاد ( January 5, 1935 — February 14, 1967) was an Iranian poet and film director Sohrab Shahid-Saless ( Sohrāb Shahǐd-Sāles,, b 28 June, 1944, Qazvin - d Bahrām Bayzai (also spelt Bahrām Beizai, Bahrām Beyzaie,, born 26 December, 1938 in Tehran) is an Iranian Parviz Kimiavi (پرويز کيمياوی Born 1939 Tehran) is an internationally acclaimed Iranian (Persian film director screenwriter editor and one of the most The filmmakers share many common techniques including the use of poetic dialogue and allegorical storytelling dealing with political and philosophical issues. ^[4]

Kiarostami has a reputation for using child protagonists, for documentary style narrative films,^[5] 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 contemporary Iranian poetry in the dialogue, titles, and themes of his films. Persian literature ( spans two and a half millennia though much of the pre- Islamic material has been lost

Contents 1 Early life and background 2 Film career 2.1 1970s 2.2 1980s 2.3 1990s 2.4 2000s 3 Cinematic style 3.1 Individualism 3.2 Fiction and non-fiction 3.3 Themes of life and death 3.4 Visual and audio techniques 3.5 Poetry and imagery 3.6 Spirituality 4 Filmography 5 Poetry and photography 6 Reception and criticism 7 Honors and awards 8 Film festival work 9 Books by Kiarostami 10 See also 11 References 11.1 Notes 11.2 Bibliography 11.3 External links

Early life and background

Kiarostami was born in Tehran. The University of Tehran ( also known as Tehran University and UT, is the oldest and largest university of Iran. Fine art is any Art form developed primarily for Aesthetics rather than Utility. Tehran (or Teheran) ( Persian: تهران Tehrān) is the capital and largest City of Iran, and the administrative center of His first artistic experience was painting, which he continued into his late teens, winning a painting competition at the age of eighteen shortly before he left home to study at the Tehran University School of Fine Arts. The University of Tehran ( also known as Tehran University and UT, is the oldest and largest university of Iran. ^[6] There he majored in painting and graphic design, and supported his degree by working as a traffic policeman. As a painter, designer, and illustrator, Kiarostami worked in advertising in the 1960s, designing posters and creating commercials. A poster is any piece of printed Paper designed to be attached to a wall or vertical surface Between 1962 and 1966, he shot around 150 advertisements for Iranian television. Towards the late 1960s, he began creating credit titles for films (including Gheysar by Masoud Kimiai) and illustrating children's books. Qeysar may refer to Qeysar (film, an Iranian film Qeysar Farah, Afghanistan Qeysar Faryab, Afghanistan Masoud Kimiai ( is an Iranian director, Screenwriter and producer. ^[6][7]

In 1969, Abbas married Parvin Amir-Gholi but later divorced her in 1982. They had two sons from the marriage; Ahmad born in 1971 and Bahman in 1978 respectively. At the age of fifteen, Bahman Kiarostami became a director and cinematographer by directing a documentary Journey to the Land of the Traveller in 1993. Bahman Kiarostami (b 11 August 1978 - in Tehran) is an Iranian Film director, Cinematographer, Film editor Journey to the Land of the Traveller ( Safari be Diare Mosafer) is a 1993 Iranian documentary Film directed by Bahman Kiarostami

Kiarostami was one of the few directors who remained in Iran after the 1979 revolution, when many of his fellow Iranian filmmakers and directors fled to the west, and he believes that it was one of the most important decisions of his career. The Iranian Revolution' (mostly known as the Islamic Revolution, Persian: انقلاب اسلامی Enghelābe Eslāmi was the Revolution that transformed He has stated that his permanent base in Iran and his national identity have consolidated his ability as a filmmaker:

When you take a tree that is rooted in the ground, and transfer it from one place to another, the tree will no longer bear fruit. And if it does, the fruit will not be as good as it was in its original place. This is a rule of nature. I think if I had left my country, I would be the same as the tree. -Abbas Kiarostami^[8]

Kiarostami frequently appears wearing dark-lensed spectacles or sunglasses. He wears them for medical reasons due to a sensitivity to light. ^[9]

In 2000, at the San Francisco Film Festival award ceremony, Kiarostami surprised everyone by giving away his Akira Kurosawa Prize for lifetime achievement in directing to veteran Iranian actor Behrooz Vossoughi for his contribution to Iranian Cinema. The San Francisco International Film Festival, first held in December 1957 in San Francisco, is the oldest continuously running film festival in the Americas Behrouz Vossoughi ( born as Khalil Vossoughi 1937 in Khoy, West Azarbaijan, Iran) is one of the most legendary Iranian actors of all ^[10][11]

Film career

See also: Filmography of Abbas Kiarostami

1970s

In 1969, when the Iranian New Wave began with Dariush Mehrjui's film The Cow, Kiarostami helped set up a filmmaking department at the Institute for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (Kanun) in Tehran. The director Abbas Kiarostami has produced a large number of films the following attempts to be a comprehensive Filmography Dariush Mehrjui ( born 8 December, 1939 in Tehran) is an Iranian director, Screenwriter, producer, and Film The Cow ( Gāv) is a 1969 Iranian movie directed by Dariush Mehrjui, written by Gholam-Hossein Saedi based on his own play Its debut production and Kiarostami's first film was the twelve-minute The Bread and Alley (1970), a neo-realistic short film about an unfortunate schoolboy's confrontation with an aggressive dog. The Bread and Alley ( Nān o Kūcheh) is a 1970 Iranian Short film directed and written by Abbas Kiarostami. In cinema and in Literature, neorealism is a cultural movement that brings elements of true life in the stories it describes rather than a world mainly Breaktime followed in 1972. Breaktime ( Zang-e Tafrīh is a 1972 Iranian Drama film directed by Abbas Kiarostami. The department went on to become one of Iran’s most famous film studios, producing not only Kiarostami's films, but acclaimed Persian films such as The Runner and Bashu, the Little Stranger. The Runner ( Davandeh) is a 1985 film by Amir Naderi, one of the major directors of Iranian cinema before and after the Iranian Bashu is a 1986 Iranian Drama film directed by Bahram Beizai. ^[6]

In the 1970s, as part of the Iranian cinematic renaissance, Kiarostami pursued an individualistic style of film making. The Bread and Alley ( Nān o Kūcheh) is a 1970 Iranian Short film directed and written by Abbas Kiarostami. ^[12] When discussing his first film, he stated:

"Bread and Alley was my first experience in cinema and I must say a very difficult one. I had to work with a very young child, a dog, and an unprofessional crew except for the cinematographer, who was nagging and complaining all the time. Well, the cinematographer, in a sense, was right because I did not follow the conventions of film making that he had become accustomed to. "^[13]

Following The Experience (1973), Kiarostami released The Traveller (Mossafer) in 1974. The Experience ( Tajrobe) is a 1973 Iranian short feature Film directed by Abbas Kiarostami. The Traveller ( Mosāfer is a 1974 Iranian Drama film directed by Abbas Kiarostami. The Traveller tells the story of Hassan Darabi, a troublesome, amoral ten-year-old boy in a small Iranian town. He wishes to see the Iran national football team play an important match in Tehran. The Iran national football team ( represents Iran in international football competitions and is controlled by the Islamic Republic of Iran Football In order to achieve that, he scams his friends and neighbors. After a number of adventures, he finally reaches Tehran stadium in time for the match. The film addresses the boy's determination in his goal, and his indifference to the effects of his actions on other people, particularly those closest to him. The film is an examination of human behavior and the balance of right and wrong. The film furthered Kiarostami's reputation of realism, diegetic simplicity, and stylistic complexity, as well as showing a fascination with physical and spiritual journeys. Realism was a general movement in the late nineteenth century that steered theatrical texts and performances toward greater fidelity to real life Diegesis is the (fictional world in which the situations and events narrated occur and telling recounting as opposed to showing enacting ^[14]

In 1975, Kiarostami directed two short films So Can I and Two Solutions for One Problem. So Can I ( Persian: Man ham Mitoumam) is a 1975 Iranian short Film directed by Abbas Kiarostami. Two Solutions for One Problem ( Dow Rahehal Baraye yek Massaleh) is a 1975 Iranian short Film directed by Abbas Kiarostami In early 1976, he released Colors, followed by the fifty-four minute film A Wedding Suit, a story about three teenagers coming into conflict over a suit for a wedding. The Colours ( Persian: Rang-ha) is a 1976 Iranian short Film directed by Abbas Kiarostami. A Wedding Suit ( Lebāsī Barā-ye Arūsī) is a 1976 Iranian Film directed by Abbas Kiarostami. ^[15][16] Kiarostami's first feature film was the 112-minute Report (1977). In the Film industry, a feature film is a Film made for initial distribution in theaters and being the "main attraction" of the screening The Report ( Gozāresh) is a 1977 Iranian Drama film directed by Abbas Kiarostami and starring Academy It revolved around the life of a tax collector accused of accepting bribes; suicide was among its themes. A tax collector is a person who collects unpaid Taxes from other people or corporations In 1979, he produced and directed First Case, Second Case. First Case Second Case ( Ghazieh-e Shekl-e Aval Ghazieh-e Shekl-e Dou Wom) is a 1979 Iranian Film directed by Abbas Kiarostami

1980s

In the early 1980s, Kiarostami directed several short films including Dental Hygiene (1980), Orderly or Disorderly (1981), and The Chorus (1982). Short subject is a format description originally coined in the North American Film industry in the early period of cinema. This article refers to the Iranian short film For information about keeping mouth and teeth clean see Oral hygiene. Orderly or Disorderly ( Be Tartib Ya Bedun-e Tartib) is a 1981 Iranian short Film directed by Abbas Kiarostami. The Chorus ( Hamsarayan) is a 1982 Iranian short Film directed by Abbas Kiarostami. In 1983, he directed Fellow Citizen, but it was not until 1987 that Abbas began to gain recognition outside of Iran with the release of Where Is the Friend's Home?. Fellow Citizen ( Hamshahri) is a 1983 Iranian Documentary film directed by Abbas Kiarostami. Where Is the Friend's Home? ( Khane-ye doust kodjast?) (aka Where Is My Friend's House? -UK Where Is The Friend's House? -North America

Where Is the Friend's Home? tells a deceptively simple account of a conscientious eight-year-old schoolboy's quest to return his friend's notebook in a neighboring village failing which his friend will be expelled from school. The traditional beliefs of Iranian rural people were depicted throughout the movie. The film has been noted for its poetic use of the Iranian rural landscape and its earnest realism, both important elements of Kiarostami's work. Rural areas can be large and isolated (also referred to as "the country" and/or "the countryside over the course of time Kiarostami also made the film from a child's point of view, without the condescending tone common to many films about children. ^[17][18]

Where Is the Friend's Home?, And Life Goes On (1992) (also known as Life and Nothing More), and Through the Olive Trees (1994) are described by critics as the Koker trilogy, because all three films feature the village of Koker in northern Iran. Life and Nothing More ( Zendegi va digar hich) ( 1991) is an Iranian film directed by Abbas Kiarostami. Through the Olive Trees ( Zire darakhatan zeyton) is a 1994 Film directed and written by Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami Koker trilogy refers to a series of three films directed by Abbas Kiarostami. Koker is a Village in northern Iran. In the early 1990s the well known Koker trilogy of films were filmed in the village which was devastated by the 1990 The films are based around the 1990 earthquake disaster in which 50,000 people lost their lives; Kiarostami uses the themes of life, death, change, and continuity to connect the films. The trilogy went on to be become successful in France in the 1990s and other countries such as the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany and Finland. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands "Sverige" redirects here For other uses see Sweden (disambiguation and Sverige (disambiguation. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Finland, officially the Republic of Finland ( is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. ^[19] However, Kiarostami does not consider the 3 films as part of a trilogy, suggesting instead that the last two titles plus Taste of Cherry (1997) comprise a trilogy, given their common theme — the preciousness of life. ^[20] In 1987, Kiarostami was involved in the screenwriting of The Key, which he edited but did not direct. In 1989, he released Homework. Homework ( Mashgh-e Shab) is a 1989 Iranian Film directed by Abbas Kiarostami.

1990s

In 1990, Kiarostami directed Close-Up, which narrates the story of the real-life trial of a man who impersonated film-maker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, conning a family into believing they would star in his new film. Close-Up (1990 is a film directed by Iranian Filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami. Mohsen Makhmalbaf ( born May 29, 1957, Tehran) is an influential and controversial Iranian Film director, Writer, The family suspects theft as the motive for this charade, but the impersonator, Hossein Sabzian, argues that his motives were more complex. The part documentary, part staged film examines Sabzian's moral justification for usurping Makhmalbaf's identity, questioning his ability to sense his cultural and artistic flair. ^[21][22] Close-Up received praise from directors such as Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese, Werner Herzog, Jean-Luc Godard, and Nanni Moretti^[23] and was released across Europe. Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an Academy Award - BAFTA Award - and Palme d'Or -winning Emmy - and Werner Herzog (born Werner H Stipetić; September 5 1942 is a German Film director, Screenwriter, actor and Opera director Jean-Luc Godard (French ʒɑ̃lyk gɔˈdaʀ (born on December 3 1930 is a French and Swiss Filmmaker and one of the founding members of the Nouvelle Vague Giovanni (Nanni Moretti (born August 19, 1953) is an Italian Film director, producer and Actor. ^[24]

In 1992, Kiarostami directed Life, and Nothing More..., regarded by critics as the second film of the Koker trilogy. Life and Nothing More ( Zendegi va digar hich) ( 1991) is an Iranian film directed by Abbas Kiarostami. The film follows a father and his young son as they drive from Tehran to Koker in search of two young boys who they fear might have perished in the 1990 earthquake. As they travel through the devastated landscape, they meet earthquake survivors forced to carry on with their lives amid tragedy. ^[25][26][27] That year Kiarostami won a Prix Roberto Rossellini, the first professional film award of his career, for his direction of the film. Roberto Rossellini ( May 8 1906 – June 3 1977) was an Italian Film director. The last film of the so-called Koker trilogy was Through the Olive Trees (1994), which turns a peripheral scene from Life and Nothing More into the central drama. ^[28] Critics such as Adrian Martin have called the style of filmmaking in the Koker trilogy as "diagrammatical", linking the zig-zagging patterns in the landscape and the geometry of forces of life and the world. Dr Adrian Martin is an Australian Film critic from Melbourne. ^[29][30] A flashback of the zigzag path in Life and Nothing More. . . (1992) in turn triggers the spectator’s memory of the previous film, Where Is the Friend’s Home? back in 1987, shot before the earthquake. This in turn symbolically links to post-earthquake reconstruction in Through the Olive Trees in 1994.

In 1995, Miramax Films released Through the Olive Trees in the US theatrically.

Kiarostami next wrote the screenplays for The Journey and The White Balloon (1995), for his former assistant Jafar Panahi. The Journey ( Safar) is a 1995 Iranian Film directed by Ali-Reza Raisian, written by Abbas Kiarostami. The White Balloon ( Badkonake sefid, 1995) is the debut feature film of Iranian director Jafar Panahi, with a screenplay by Jafar Panahi ( born July 11, 1960 in Mianeh, Iran) is an internationally acclaimed Iranian filmmaker and is one of the most influential ^[6] Between 1995 and 1996, he was involved in the production of Lumière and Company, a collaboration with 40 other film directors. Lumière and Company (1995 original title "Lumière et Cie" was a collaboration between 41 international Film directors in which each made a short film

In 1997, Kiarostami won the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) award at the Cannes Film Festival for Taste of Cherry, the tale of a desperate man, Mr. The Palme d'Or ( English: Golden Palm) is the highest prize awarded to competing films at the Cannes Film Festival. The Cannes Film Festival (le Festival de Cannes founded in 1946 is one of the world's oldest most influential and prestigious Film festivals alongside Venice, Taste of Cherry ( Ta'm-e gīlās) is a 1997 film by Iranian Filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami. Badii, hell-bent on committing suicide. The film involved themes such as morality, the legitimacy of the act of suicide, and the meaning of compassion. ^[31]

In 1999, Kiarostami directed The Wind Will Carry Us, which won the Grand Jury Prize (Silver Lion) at the Venice International Film Festival. The Wind Will Carry Us ( Bād mā rā khāhad bord) is a 1999 Iranian film by Abbas Kiarostami. The Venice Film Festival is the oldest Film festival in the world The film contrasted rural and urban views on the dignity of labor, addressing themes of gender equality and the benefits of progress, by means of a stranger's sojourn in a remote Kurdish village. History See also History of the Kurdish people Ancient period See also Hurrians, Guti, Mannaeans, Medes ^[19] An interesting feature of the movie is that many of the characters are heard but not seen, and there are at least thirteen to fourteen characters in the film who remain invisible throughout. ^[32]

2000s

In 2002, Kiarostami directed Ten, revealing an unusual method of filmmaking and abandoning many scriptwriting conventions. Ten (ده is a 2002 Iranian Film directed by Abbas Kiarostami and starring Mania Akbari. ^[32] Kiarostami focused on the socio-political landscape of Iran, and the images are seen through the eyes of one woman as she drives through the streets of Tehran over a period of several days. Her journey is composed of ten conversations with various passengers, which include her sister, a hitchhiking prostitute and a jilted bride and her demanding young son. This style of filmmaking was praised by a number of professional film critics such as A. O. Scott in The New York Times, who wrote that Kiarostami, "in addition to being perhaps the most internationally admired Iranian filmmaker of the past decade, is also among the world masters of automotive cinema. Anthony O "Tony" Scott (born July 10, 1966) is an American Journalist and Critic. . . He understands the automobile as a place of reflection, observation and, above all, talk. "^[33]

In 2001, Kiarostami and his assistant, Seifollah Samadian, traveled to Kampala, Uganda at the request of the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development, to film a documentary about programs assisting Ugandan orphans. Kampala is the Capital city of Uganda. With a population of 1208544 (2002 it is the largest city in Uganda The Republic of Uganda is a Landlocked country in East Africa. The United Nations ( UN) is an International organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in International law, International security The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD a specialized agency of the United Nations, was established as an international financial institution in 1977 as one He stayed for ten days and made ABC Africa. ABC Africa is a 2001 Iranian documentary feature Film directed by Abbas Kiarostami. The trip was originally intended as a research in preparation for the actual filming, but Kiarostami ended up editing the entire film from the video footage obtained. ^[34] Although Uganda's orphans are overwhelmingly the result of the AIDS epidemic, Time Out editor and National Film Theatre chief programmer Geoff Andrew stated about Kiarostami's film: "Like his previous four features, this film is not about death but life-and-death: how they're linked, and what attitude we might adopt with regard to their symbiotic inevitability. The HIV / AIDS epidemics spreading through the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa are highly varied Time Out is a Publishing company based in London, England. The company's best known product is the Time Out weekly listings Magazine BFI Southbank (formerly known as the National Film Theatre) is the leading Repertory cinema in the UK specialising in seasons of classic independent "^[35]

In 2003, Kiarostami directed Five, a poetic feature with no dialogue or characterization. Five Dedicated to Ozu ( Persian: Panj, Five) is a 2003 Iranian documentary Film directed by Abbas Kiarostami It consists of five long shots of nature which are single-take sequences, shot with a hand-held DV camera, along the shores of the Caspian Sea. Digital Video (DV is a Digital video format created by Sony JVC Panasonic and other video camera procuers and launched in 1995 and in its smaller tape Form factor The Caspian Sea is the largest enclosed body of water on Earth by area variously classed as the world's largest lake or a full-fledged Sea. Although the film lacks a clear storyline, Geoff Andrew argues that the film is "more than just pretty pictures". He further adds, "Assembled in order, they comprise a kind of abstract or emotional narrative arc, which moves evocatively from separation and solitude to community, from motion to rest, near-silence to sound and song, light to darkness and back to light again, ending on a note of rebirth and regeneration. "^[36] He further notes the degree of artifice concealed behind the apparent simplicity of the imagery.

In 2004, Kiarostami produced 10 on Ten, a journal documentary that shares ten lessons on movie-making while driving through the locations of his past films. The movie is shot on digital video with a stationary camera mounted inside the car, in a manner reminiscent of Taste of Cherry and Ten.

In 2005 and 2006, he directed The Roads of Kiarostami, a 32-minute documentary that reflects on the power of landscape, combining austere black-and-white photographs with poetic observations, engaging music with political subject matter. Roads of Kiarostami is a 2006 Iranian Documentary film directed by Abbas Kiarostami.

Kiarostami's most recent film was Tickets, directed in collaboration with Ken Loach and Ermanno Olmi. Tickets is a 2005 comedy-drama Film directed by Abbas Kiarostami, Ken Loach and Ermanno Olmi. Kenneth Loach (born 17 June 1936) known as Ken Loach, is an English television and Film director. Ermanno Olmi (born July 24, 1931) is a renowned Italian Film director. It covers the interactions between people on public transport and in the street of everyday life.

Kiarostami's next film is Certified Copy, shot in Tuscany. A certified copy is a Photocopy of a filed document Legal or other in its entirety (everything within a staple that is sworn to be a true copy by a Court clerk

Cinematic style

Main article: Cinematic style of Abbas Kiarostami

Individualism

Though Kiarostami has been compared to Satyajit Ray, Vittorio de Sica, Eric Rohmer, and Jacques Tati, his films exhibit a singular style, often employing techniques of his own invention. Abbas Kiarostami is known for his characteristic use of techniques and themes that are instantly recognizable in his films, from the use of Child Protagonists Satyajit Ray (সত্যজিত রায় or সত্যজিৎ রায়) (2 May 1921–23 April 1992 was a Bengali Indian Filmmaker. Vittorio De Sica ( 7 July 1901 or 1902&ndash 13 November 1974) was a critically acclaimed Italian neorealist director Éric Rohmer (born Jean-Marie Maurice Scherer, 4 April 1920 Tulle, France) is a French Film director and Screenwriter. Jacques Tati (October 9 &ndashNovember 5) was a noted French comedic Filmmaker. ^[6]

During the filming of The Bread and Alley in 1970, Kiarostami had major differences with his experienced cinematographer about how to film the boy and the attacking dog. While the cinematographer wanted separate shots of the boy approaching, a close up of his hand as he enters the house and closes the door, followed by a shot of the dog, Kiarostami believed that if the three scenes could be captured as a whole it would have a more profound impact in creating tension over the situation. That one shot took around forty days to complete, until Kiarostami was fully content with the scene. Abbas later commented that the breaking of scenes would have disrupted the rhythm and content of the film's structure, preferring to let the scene flow as one. Rhythm (from Greek ῥυθμός - rhythmos, "any measured flow or movement symmetry" is the variation of the length and accentuation of ^[13]

Unlike other directors, Kiarostami has showed no interest in staging extravagant combat scenes or complicated chase scenes in large-scale productions, instead attempting to mold the medium of film to his own specifications. The ComBat was an Aluminium Cricket bat and the subject of an incident that occurred at the WACA cricket ground in Perth in December 1979. ^[37] Kiarostami appeared to have settled on his style with the Koker trilogy, which included a myriad of references to his own film material, connecting common themes and subject matter between each of the films. Stephen Bransford has contended that Kiarostami's films do not contain references to the work of other directors, but are fashioned in such a manner that they are self-referenced. Bransford believes his films are often fashioned into an ongoing dialectic with one film reflecting on and partially demystifying an earlier film. ^[28]

Nevertheless, he continued experimenting with new modes of filming, using different directorial methods and techniques. A dashboard, dash, and sometimes fascia (chiefly in British English) is a control panel located under the Windshield of an Automobile Ten (ده is a 2002 Iranian Film directed by Abbas Kiarostami and starring Mania Akbari. A case in point is Ten, which was filmed in a moving automobile in which Kiarostami was not present. He gave suggestions to the actors about what to do, and a camera placed on the dashboard then filmed them while they drove around Tehran. A dashboard, dash, and sometimes fascia (chiefly in British English) is a control panel located under the Windshield of an Automobile ^[13][38] The camera was allowed to roll, capturing the faces of the people involved during their daily routine, using a series of extreme-close shots. Ten was an experiment that used digital cameras to virtually eliminate the director. This new direction towards a Digital-Micro-Cinema, is defined as a micro-budget filmmaking practice, allied with a digital production basis. Abbas Kiarostami is known for his characteristic use of techniques and themes that are instantly recognizable in his films, from the use of Child Protagonists ^[39]

Kiarostami's cinema offers a different definition of film. According to film professors such as Jamsheed Akrami of William Paterson University, Kiarostami has consistently attempted to redefine film by lowering its full definition and forcing the increased involvement of the audience. William Paterson University is a public university located in Wayne New Jersey, an affluent suburb of New York City. In recent years, he has also progressively trimmed down the timespan of his films, which Akrami believes reduces the filmmaking experience from a collective endeavor to a purer, more basic form of artistic expression. ^[37]

Fiction and non-fiction

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. Kiarostami has stated, "We can never get close to the truth except through lying. "^[6][40]

The boundary between fiction and non-fiction is significantly reduced in Kiarostami's cinema. ^[41] The French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, writing about Kiarostami, and in particular Life and Nothing More. Jean-Luc Nancy (born July 26, 1940) is a French philosopher. Nancy's first book published in 1973 was Le titre de la lettre . . , has argued that his films are neither quite fiction nor quite documentary. Life and Nothing More. . . , he argues, is neither representation nor reportage, but rather "evidence":

[I]t all looks like reporting, but everything underscores (indique à l'évidence) that it is the fiction of a documentary (in fact, Kiarostami shot the film several months after the earthquake), and that it is rather a document about "fiction": not in the sense of imagining the unreal, but in the very specific and precise sense of the technique, of the art of constructing images. For the image by means of which, each time, each opens a world and precedes himself in it (s'y précède) is not pregiven (donnée toute faite) (as are those of dreams, phantasms or bad films): it is to be invented, cut and edited. Thus it is evidence, insofar as, if one day I happen to look at my street on which I walk up and down ten times a day, I construct for an instant a new evidence of my street. ^[42]

For Jean-Luc Nancy, this notion of cinema as "evidence", rather than as documentary or imagination, is tied to the way Kiarostami deals with life-and-death (cf. the remark by Geoff Andrew on ABC Africa, cited above, to the effect that Kiarostami's films are not about death but about life-and-death):

Existence resists the indifference of life-and-death, it lives beyond mechanical "life," it is always its own mourning, and its own joy. It becomes figure, image. It does not become alienated in images, but it is presented there: the images are the evidence of its existence, the objectivity of its assertion. This thought—which, for me, is the very thought of this film [Life and Nothing More. . . ]—is a difficult thought, perhaps the most difficult. It's a slow thought, always under way, fraying a path so that the path itself becomes thought. It is that which frays images so that images become this thought, so that they become the evidence of this thought—and not in order to "represent" it. ^[43]

In other words, wanting to accomplish more than just represent life and death as opposing forces, but rather to illustrate the way in which each element of nature is inextricably linked, Kiarostami has devised a cinema that does more than just present the viewer with the documentable "facts," but neither is it simply a matter of artifice. Because "existence" means more than simply life, it is projective, containing an irreducibly fictive element, but in this "being more than" life, it is therefore contaminated by mortality. Nancy is giving a clue, in other words, toward the interpretation of Kiarostami's statement that lying is the only way to truth. ^[44][45]

Themes of life and death

The concepts of change and continuity, in addition to the themes of life and death, play a major role in Kiarostami's works. In the Koker trilogy, these themes play a central role. As illustrated in the aftermath of the 1990 Tehran earthquake disaster, they represent an ongoing opposition between life and death and the power of human resilience to overcome and defy destruction.

However, unlike the Koker films, which convey an instinctual thirst for survival, Taste of Cherry also explores the fragility of life and rhetorically focuses on the preciousness of life. Taste of Cherry ( Ta'm-e gīlās) is a 1997 film by Iranian Filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami. ^[20]

In contrast, symbols of death abound in The Wind Will Carry Us with the scenery of graveyard, the imminence of the old woman’s passing, and the ancestors that the character Farzad mentions early in the film. Death is the termination of the biological functions that define living Organisms It refers both to a specific A graveyard is any place set aside for long-term burial of the dead with or without monuments such as Headstones It is usually located near and administered by a Such devices prompt the viewer to consider the parameters of the afterlife and immaterial existence. In Mathematics, Statistics, and the mathematical Sciences a parameter ( G auxiliary measure) is a quantity that defines certain characteristics The viewer is asked to consider what constitutes the soul, and what happens to it after death. In discussing the film, Kiarostami has stated that he is the person who raises questions, rather than the person who answers them. ^[46]

Some film critics believe that the assemblage of light versus dark scenes in Kiarostami's film grammar, such as in Taste of Cherry and Wind Will Carry Us, suggests the mutual existence of life with its endless possibilities and death as a factual moment of anyone’s life in his films. ^[47]

Visual and audio techniques

Kiarostami's style is notable for the use of panoramic long shots, such as in the closing sequences of Life and Nothing More andThrough the Olive Trees, where the audience is intentionally distanced physically from the characters in order to stimulate reflection on their fate. Life and Nothing More ( Zendegi va digar hich) ( 1991) is an Iranian film directed by Abbas Kiarostami. Taste of Cherry is punctuated throughout by shots of this kind, including distant overhead shots of the suicidal Badii's car moving across the hills, usually while he is conversing with a passenger. However, the visual distancing techniques stand in juxtaposition to the sound of the dialog, which always remains in the foreground. Like the coexistence of a private and public space, or the frequent framing of landscapes through car windows, this fusion of distance with proximity can be seen as a way of generating suspense in the most mundane of moments. ^[26]

This relationship between distance and intimacy, between imagery and sound, is also present in the opening sequence to The Wind Will Carry Us. Taste of Cherry ( Ta'm-e gīlās) is a 1997 film by Iranian Filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami. Michael J. Anderson has argued that such a thematic application of this central concept of presence without presence, through using such techniques, and by often referring to characters which the viewer does not see and sometimes not hear directly affects the nature and concept of space in the geographical framework in which the world is portrayed. Geography (from Greek γεωγραφία - geografia) is the study of the Earth and its lands features inhabitants and phenomena Kiarostami's use of sound and imagery conveys a world beyond what is directly visible and/or audible, which Anderson believes emphasizes the interconnectedness and shrinking of time and space in the modern world of telecommunications. Vagina Imagery is used in literature to refer to descriptive language that evokes sensory experience ^[46]

Other commentators such as film critic Ben Zipper believe that Kiarostami’s work as a landscape artist is evident in his compositional distant shots of the dry hills throughout a number of his films directly impacting on his construction on the rural landscapes within his films. Film review redirects here for the similar sounding Film revue please visit Revue#Film revues. ^[47]

Poetry and imagery

Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, of the University of Maryland, argues that one aspect of Kiarostami's cinematic style is that he is able to capture the essence of Persian poetry and create poetic imagery within the landscape of his films. Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak is a Persian literary figure and Iranist. The University of Maryland College Park (often referred to as The University of Maryland UMD, UMCP or simply Maryland) is a public research Persian literature ( spans two and a half millennia though much of the pre- Islamic material has been lost In several of his movies such as Where is the Friend's Home and The Wind Will Carry Us, classical Persian poetry is directly quoted in the film, highlighting the artistic link and intimate connection between them. This in turn reflects on the connection between the past and present, between continuity and change. ^[48]

The characters recite poems mainly from classical Persian poet Omar Khayyám or modern Persian poets such as Sohrab Sepehri and Forough Farrokhzad. For the Thoroughbred racehorse see Omar Khayyam (horse Ghiyās od-Dīn Abol-Fath Omār ibn Ebrāhīm Khayyām Neyshābūri (غیاث الدین Nishapur, or Neyshābūr ( is a city in the Razavi Khorasan province in northeastern Iran, situated in a fertile plain at the foot For the Thoroughbred racehorse see Omar Khayyam (horse Ghiyās od-Dīn Abol-Fath Omār ibn Ebrāhīm Khayyām Neyshābūri (غیاث الدین Sohrab Sepehri () ( October 7, 1928 - April 21, 1980 was a notable modern Persian poet and a painter Forugh Farrokhzad (فروغ فرخزاد ( January 5, 1935 — February 14, 1967) was an Iranian poet and film director One scene in The Wind Will Carry Us has a long shot of a wheat field with rippling golden crops through which the doctor, accompanied by the filmmaker, is riding his scooter in a twisting road. In response to the comment that the other world is a better place than this one, the doctor recites this poem of Khayyam:^[47]

“

They promise of houries in heaven But I would say wine is better Take the present to the promises A drum sounds melodious from apart

”

However, the aesthetic element involved with the poetry goes much farther back in time and is used more subtly than these examples suggest. Beyond issues of adaptation of text to film, Kiarostami often begins with an insistent will to give visual embodiment to certain specific image-making techniques in Persian poetry, both classical and modern. This prominently results in enunciating a larger philosophical position, namely the ontological oneness of poetry and film. Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence knowledge truth beauty justice validity mind and language ^[48]

It has been argued that the creative merit of Kiarostami's adaptation of Sohrab Sepehri and Forough Farrokhzad's poems extends the domain of textual transformation. Adaptation is defined as the transformation of a prior to a new text. Sima Daad of the University of Washington contends that Kiarostami's adaptation arrives at the theoretical realm of adaptation by expanding its limit from inter-textual potential to trans-generic potential. See Washington (disambiguation for other uses The University of Washington, founded in 1861, is a public research University ^[49]

Spirituality

Kiarostami's films often reflect upon immaterial concepts such as soul and afterlife. At times, however, the very concept of the spiritual seems to be contradicted by the medium itself, given that it has no inherent means to confer the metaphysical. Some film theorists have argued that The Wind Will Carry Us provides a template by which a filmmaker can communicate metaphysical reality. Metaphysics is the branch of Philosophy investigating principles of reality transcending those of any particular science The limits of the frame, the material representation of a space in dialog with another that is not represented, physically become metaphors for the relationship between this world and those which may exist apart from it. By limiting the space of the mise en scène, Kiarostami expands the space of the art. Mise-en-scène (mizɑ̃sɛn is an expression used in the theatre and film worlds to describe the design aspects of a production ^[46]

Kiarostami's "complex" sound-images and philosophical approach have caused frequent comparisons with "mystical" filmmakers such as Andrei Tarkovsky and Robert Bresson. Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (Андре́й Арсе́ньевич Тарко́вский (April 4 1932 - December 29 1986 was a Soviet Film director, writer and opera director Robert Bresson (ʁɔbɛʁ bʁɛˈsɔ̃ in French ( September 25, 1901 &ndash December 18, 1999) was a French Film director Irrespective of substantial cultural differences, much of western writing about Kiarostami positions him as the Iranian equivalent of such directors, by virtue of universal austere, "spiritual" poetics and moral commitment. ^[50] Some draw parallels between certain imagery in Kiarostami's films with that of Sufi concepts. Sufism ( تصوّف - taṣawwuf, Persian: صوفی‌گری sufigari, Turkish: tasavvuf, Urdu: تصوف ^[51]

However, differing viewpoints have arisen about this issue. While a vast majority of English-language writers, such as David Sterritt and Spanish film professor Alberto Elena, interpret Kiarostami's films as spiritual films, other critics including David Walsh and Hamish Ford have diminished its influence in his films. David Walsh, born in New York City New York, is a Film critic and political writer for the World Socialist Web Site ^[50][51][20]

Filmography

Please see Filmography of Abbas Kiarostami

Poetry and photography

Kiarostami, along with Ridley Scott, Jean Cocteau, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Derek Jarman, and Gulzar, is part of a tradition of filmmakers whose artistic expressions are not restricted to one medium, but who show the ability to use other forms such as poetry, set designs, painting, or photography to relate their interpretation of the world we live in and to illustrate their understanding of our preoccupations and identities. The director Abbas Kiarostami has produced a large number of films the following attempts to be a comprehensive Filmography Five Dedicated to Ozu ( Persian: Panj, Five) is a 2003 Iranian documentary Film directed by Abbas Kiarostami Sir Ridley Scott (born November 30 1937 in South Shields, Tyne and Wear) is a British Academy Award Nominated and Golden Globe Emmy Award and BAFTA Award winning Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (5 July 1889 &ndash 11 October 1963 was a French Poet, Novelist, Dramatist, Designer, Boxing Pier Paolo Pasolini ( March 5, 1922 – November 2, 1975) was an Italian Poet, Intellectual, Film director Derek Jarman ( January 31 1942 – February 19 1994) was an English Film director, Stage designer Scenic design (also known as stage design, set design or production design) is the creation of theatrical, as well as Film or Painting (pān'tīng in Art, is the practice of applying Color to a Surface (support base such as e Photography (fә'tɒgrәfi or fә'tɑːgrәfi (from Greek φωτο and γραφία is the process and Art of recording pictures by means of capturing ^[52]

Kiarostami is also a noted photographer and poet. A photographer is a person who takes a Photograph using a Camera. A bilingual collection of more than 200 of his poems, Walking with the Wind, was published by Harvard University Press. Harvard University Press ( HUP) is a Publishing house, a division of Harvard University, that is highly respected in Academic publishing. His photographic work includes Untitled Photographs, a collection of over thirty photographs, essentially of snow landscapes, taken in his hometown Tehran, between 1978 and 2003. An exhibition of Kiarostami's photographs of roads, trees and views from a car were shown at PS1 Contemporary Art Center in New York in 2007. ^[53] In 1999, He also published a collection of his poems. ^[54][6]

Riccardo Zipoli, from the Università Ca' Foscari Venezia in Venice, has examined some aspects of the relations and interconnections between Kiarostami's poems and his films. The Ca' Foscari University of Venice ( Italian Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, UNIVE) is an Italian university Venice ( Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venesia or Venexia) is a city in Northern Italy, the capital of the The results of the analysis reveal how Kiarostami's treatment of this theme is similar in his poems and films. ^[55] Kiarostami's poetry is reminiscent of the later nature poems of the Persian painter-poet, Sohrab Sepehri. Sohrab Sepehri () ( October 7, 1928 - April 21, 1980 was a notable modern Persian poet and a painter On the other hand, the succinct allusion to philosophical truths without the need for deliberation, the non-judgmental tone of the poetic voice, and the structure of the poem—absence of personal pronouns, adverbs or over reliance on adjectives—as well as the lines containing a kigo (a season word) gives much of this poetry a Haikuesque characteristic. Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence knowledge truth beauty justice validity mind and language is a form of Japanese poetry. Previously called ^[52]

Reception and criticism

Kiarostami has received worldwide acclaim for his work from both audiences and critics, and, in 1999, he was unequivocally voted the most important film director of the 1990s by two international critics' polls. ^[56] Four of his films were placed in the top six of Cinematheque Ontario's Best of the '90s poll. ^[57] He has gained recognition from film theorists, critics, as well as peers such as Jean-Luc Godard, Nanni Moretti (who made a short film about opening one of Kiarostami's films in his theater in Rome), Chris Marker, Ray Carney, and Akira Kurosawa, who said of Kiarostami's films: "Words cannot describe my feelings about them . Jean-Luc Godard (French ʒɑ̃lyk gɔˈdaʀ (born on December 3 1930 is a French and Swiss Filmmaker and one of the founding members of the Nouvelle Vague Giovanni (Nanni Moretti (born August 19, 1953) is an Italian Film director, producer and Actor. Chris Marker (born 29 July 1921 is a French Writer, Photographer, Film director, Multimedia artist and documentary maker Ray Carney, also known as Raymond Carney, PhD, is an American scholar and critic primarily known for his work as a film theorist, although he writes extensively . . When Satyajit Ray passed on, I was very depressed. Satyajit Ray (সত্যজিত রায় or সত্যজিৎ রায়) (2 May 1921–23 April 1992 was a Bengali Indian Filmmaker. But after seeing Kiarostami’s films, I thanked God for giving us just the right person to take his place. "^[6][58] Critically-acclaimed directors such as Martin Scorsese have commented that "Kiarostami represents the highest level of artistry in the cinema. "^[59] In 2006, The Guardian's panel of critics ranked Kiarostami as the best non-American film director. The Guardian (until 1959 The Manchester Guardian) is a British Newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ^[60]

Nevertheless, critics such as Jonathan Rosenbaum have argued that "there's no getting around the fact that the movies of Abbas Kiarostami divide audiences—in this country, in his native Iran, and everywhere else they're shown. "^[26] Rosenbaum argues that disagreements and controversy over Kiarostami's movies have arisen from his style of filmmaking because what in Hollywood would count as essential narrative information is frequently missing from Kiarostami's films. Camera placement, likewise, often defies standard audience expectations. In the closing sequences of Life and Nothing More and Through the Olive Trees, the audience is forced to imagine missing scenes. In Homework and Close-Up, parts of the sound track have been masked, or drop in and out. It has also been argued that the subtlety of Kiarostami's form of cinematic expression is resistant to critical analysis. ^[61]

While Kiarostami has won significant acclaim in Europe for several of his films, the Iranian government has refused to permit the screening of his films in his native Iran. The politics and government of Iran takes place in the framework of a Republic with an Islamic ideology Kiarostami has responded, "The government has decided not to show any of my films for the past 10 years. . . I think they don't understand my films and so prevent them being shown just in case there is a message they don't want to get out". ^[59] Kiarostami has faced opposition in the United States as well. In 2002, he was refused a visa to attend the New York Film Festival in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. A visa (short for the Latin carta visa, lit "a document that has been seen" is a document issued by a Country giving an individual The New York Film Festival is the one of the most important film festivals in the United States first held in 1963 in New York. ^[62][63] Festival director Richard Pena, who had invited him said, "It's a terrible sign of what's happening in my country today that no one seems to realize or care about the kind of negative signal this sends out to the entire Muslim world". Richard Peña (born 1953 is an American film program director noted for his organization of the New York Film Festival. A Muslim (مسلم pronounced Muslim, not Muzlim) is an adherent of the Religion ^[59] Finnish film director Aki Kaurismäki boycotted the festival in protest. Finland, officially the Republic of Finland ( is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. Aki Olavi Kaurismäki ( (born April 4, 1957 in Orimattila, Finland) is a Finnish script writer and Film director. ^[64] Kiarostami had been invited by the New York International Film Festival, as well as Ohio University and Harvard University. The New York Film Festival is the one of the most important film festivals in the United States first held in 1963 in New York. Ohio University is a public university located in Athens Ohio that is situated on a 1800 acre (7 ^[65]

In 2005, London Film School organized a workshop as well as festival of Kiarostami’s work, titled "Abbas Kiarostami: Visions of the Artist". The London Film School (LFS is one of the leading private film schools in the United Kingdom. Ben Gibson, Director of the London Film School, said, "Very few people have the creative and intellectual clarity to invent cinema from its most basic elements, from the ground up. We are very lucky to have the chance to see a master like Kiarostami thinking on his feet. "^[66]

In 2007, The Museum of Modern Art and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center co-organized a festival of the Kiarostami's work, titled "Abbas Kiarostami: Image Maker". The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, USA, on 53rd Street between Fifth ^[67] Kiarostami and his cinematic style have been the subject of several books and two films, Il Giorno della prima di Close Up (1996), directed by Nanni Moretti and Abbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living (2003), directed by Fergus Daly. Giovanni (Nanni Moretti (born August 19, 1953) is an Italian Film director, producer and Actor. Abbas Kiarostami is also a member of the advisory board of World Cinema Foundation. World Cinema Foundation is a project founded in 2007 and aims at finding and reconstructing non-hollywood films that have been neglected The project was founded by Martin Scorsese and aimed at finding and reconstructing world cinema films that have been long neglected. ^[68][69] Austrian director Michael Haneke has admired the work of Abbas Kiarostami as one of the best. Michael Haneke (born March 23 1942 in Munich, Germany is an Austrian filmmaker and writer best known for his bleak and disturbing style ^[70]

Honors and awards

Main article: List of awards won by Abbas Kiarostami

Kiarostami has won the admiration of audiences and critics worldwide and received some 70 awards till 2000. ^[71] Here are some representatives:

• Prix Roberto Rossellini (1992)
• Prix Cine Decouvertes (1992)
• François Truffaut Award (1993)
• Pier Paolo Pasolini Award (1995)
• Federico Fellini Gold Medal, UNESCO (1997)
• Palme d'Or, Cannes Festival (1997)
• Honorary Golden Alexander Prize, Greece (1999)
• Silver Lion, Venice Film Festival (1999)
• Akira Kurosawa Award (2000)
• Honorary doctorate, Ecole Normale Supérieure (2003)
• Konrad Wolf Prize (2003)
• President of the Jury for Caméra d'Or Award, Cannes Festival (2005)
• Fellowship of the British Film Institute (2005)
• Gold Leopard of Honor, Locarno film festival (2005)
• Prix Henri-Langlois Prize (2006)
• Honorary doctorate, University of Toulouse (2007)
• World's great masters, Kolkata International Film Festival (2007)

Film festival work

Kiarostami was a jury member at numerous film festivals, most notably the Cannes Film Festival in 1993, 2002 and 2005. Roberto Rossellini ( May 8 1906 – June 3 1977) was an Italian Film director. François Roland Truffaut ( February 6 1932 – October 21 1984) was one of the founders of the French New Wave in filmmaking Pier Paolo Pasolini ( March 5, 1922 – November 2, 1975) was an Italian Poet, Intellectual, Film director Federico Fellini, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI ( January 20 1920 &ndash October 31 1993) was an Italian Film The Palme d'Or ( English: Golden Palm) is the highest prize awarded to competing films at the Cannes Film Festival. Greece (Ελλάδα transliterated: Elláda, historically, Ellás,) officially the Hellenic Republic (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία École Normale de Musique de ParisThe École normale supérieure (also known as Normale Sup’, Normale, ENS, ENS-Paris, ENS-Ulm or Konrad Wolf ( 20 October 1925, Hechingen - 7 March 1982, Berlin) was an East German film director son of Henri Langlois ( November 13, 1914 - January 13, 1977) was a pioneer of Film preservation and restoration. The University of Toulouse ' is a consortium of universities and other institutions of higher education and research named after one of the earliest universities established The Cannes Film Festival (le Festival de Cannes founded in 1946 is one of the world's oldest most influential and prestigious Film festivals alongside Venice, The Cannes Film Festival (le Festival de Cannes founded in 1946 is one of the world's oldest most influential and prestigious Film festivals alongside Venice, He was also the president of the Camera d'or Jury in Cannes Film Festival 2005.

Some representatives:^[72][73][74]

• Venice in 1985
• Locarno in 1990
• Cannes in 1993
• San Sebastian in 1996. The Venice Film Festival is the oldest Film festival in the world The Locarno International Film Festival is an international Film festival held annually in the city of Locarno, Switzerland in the canton of Ticino The Cannes Film Festival (le Festival de Cannes founded in 1946 is one of the world's oldest most influential and prestigious Film festivals alongside Venice, The San Sebastián International Film Festival is an annual FIAPF A category Film festival which originated in 1953 and is held in the Spanish city of
• Cannes in 2002
• São Paulo International Film Festival (2004)
• Cannes in 2005 (president)
• Capalbio Cinema Festival in 2007 (president)

Books by Kiarostami

• Abbas Kiarostami, Abbas Kiarostami: Cahiers du Cinema Livres (October 24, 1997) ISBN 2866421965. The Cannes Film Festival (le Festival de Cannes founded in 1946 is one of the world's oldest most influential and prestigious Film festivals alongside Venice, The São Paulo International Film Festival is a Film festival held annually in São Paulo, Brazil since 1976. The Cannes Film Festival (le Festival de Cannes founded in 1946 is one of the world's oldest most influential and prestigious Film festivals alongside Venice, Events 69 - Second Battle of Bedriacum, forces under Antonius Primus the commander of the Danube armies loyal to Vespasian, defeat Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar
• Abbas Kiarostami, Walking with the Wind (Voices and Visions in Film): English translation by Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak and Michael C. Beard, Harvard Film Archive; Bilingual edition (February 28, 2002) ISBN 0674008448. Events 202 BC - coronation ceremony of Liu Bang as Emperor Gaozu of Han takes place initiating four centuries of the Han Dynasty 's rule See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.
• Abbas Kiarostami, 10 (ten): Cahiers du Cinema Livres (September 5, 2002) ISBN 2866423461. Events 1590 - Alexander Farnese 's army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.
• Abbas Kiarostami, Nahal Tajadod and Jean-Claude Carrière Avec le vent: P. O. L. (May 5, 2002) ISBN 2867448891. Events 553 - The Second Council of Constantinople begins 1215 - Rebel Barons renounce their allegiance to King John See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.
• Abbas Kiarostami, Le vent nous emportera: Cahiers du Cinema Livres (September 5, 2002) ISBN 286642347X. Events 1590 - Alexander Farnese 's army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.
• Abbas Kiarostami, La Lettre du Cinema: P. O. L. (December 12, 1997) ISBN 2867445892. Events 627 - Battle of Nineveh: A Byzantine army under Emperor Heraclius defeats Emperor Khosrau II 's Persian Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar

See also

Kiarostami's assistants

• Jafar Panahi
• Hassan Yektapanah
• Bahman Ghobadi
• Bahman Kiarostami (son)

General

• Intellectual Movements in Iran
• Iranian New Wave
• Iranian cinema
• List of Iranian Intellectuals

References

Notes

Bibliography

• Geoff Andrew, Ten (London: BFI Publishing, 2005).
• Erice-Kiarostami. Correspondences, 2006, ISBN 8496540243, catalogue of an exhibition together with the Spanish filmmaker Víctor Erice
• Alberto Elena, The Cinema of Abbas Kiarostami, Saqi Books 2005, ISBN 0-86356-594-8
• Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Abbas Kiarostami (Contemporary Film Directors), University of Illinois Press 2003 (paperback), ISBN 0-252-07111-5
• Jean-Luc Nancy, The Evidence of Film - Abbas Kiarostami, Yves Gevaert, Belgium 2001, ISBN 2-930128-17-8
• Jean-Claude Bernardet, Caminhos de Kiarostami, Melhoramentos; 1 edition (2004), ISBN 978-8535905717
• Marco Dalla Gassa, Abbas Kiarostami, Publisher: Mani (2000) ISBN 978-8880121473
• Youssef Ishaghpour, Le réel, face et pile: Le cinéma d'Abbas Kiarostami , Farrago (2000) ISBN 978-2844900630
• Alberto Barbera and Elisa Resegotti (editors), Kiarostami, Electa (April 30, 2004) ISBN 978-8837023904
• Hamid Dabashi, Masters & Masterpieces of Iranian Cinema, Mage Publishers (May 15, 2007) ISBN 978-0934211857
• Laurent Kretzschmar, "Is Cinema Renewing Itself?", Film-Philosophy. Víctor Erice Aras was born in Karrantza in Biscay ( Spain) He studied law political science and economics at the University of Madrid also attended the Jean-Luc Nancy (born July 26, 1940) is a French philosopher. Nancy's first book published in 1973 was Le titre de la lettre Events 313 - Roman emperor Licinius unifies the entire Eastern Roman Empire under his rule "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Biography Born and raised in southern city of Ahvaz in Iran, Dabashi was educated in Iran and then in the United States where he received a dual Ph Events 1252 - Pope Innocent IV issues the Papal bull Ad exstirpanda, which authorizes but also limits the Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. vol. 6 no 15, July 2002.
• Jonathan Rosenbaum, "Lessons from a Master," Chicago Reader, June 14, 1996

External links

• Abbas Kiarostami at the Internet Movie Database
• Abbas Kiarostami at SensesOfCinema.com
• Biography of Abbas Kiarostami at Zeitgeist Films
• Abbas Kiarostami: Image, Voice and Vision, Conference Abstracts (2005)
• (Spanish) Erice/Kiarostami: Correspondencias
• (Spanish) Erice, Angelopoulos, Kiarostami
• "The Soloist" - portrait interview with Abbas Kiarostami - Subtitles to Cinema
• The compassionate gaze 2000 San Francisco International Film Festival
• Man of Iran, New Yorker
• Firouzan Films Iranian Movie Hall of Fame Inductee Abbas Kiarostami
• Interview with Abbas Kiarostami, in Farsi with English subtitles, 6 min 44 sec, YouTube. Events 1276 - While taking exile in Fuzhou in southern China, away from the advancing Mongol invaders, the remnants of the Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar) Zeitgeist Films is an American independent Film distributor based in New York City. The San Francisco International Film Festival, first held in December 1957 in San Francisco, is the oldest continuously running film festival in the Americas
• Charlotte Higgins, Cinema's poet of silence switches to opera with Mozart debut at ENO, The Guardian, April 16, 2008.
  Peter Bradshaw, Critic's view, The Guardian, April 16, 2008.
  Kiarostami and Opera, International Film, Iranian Film Quarterly.

Awards
Cannes Film Festival
Preceded by Mike Leigh for Secrets & Lies	Palme d'Or for Taste of Cherry 1997	Succeeded by Theodoros Angelopoulos for Eternity and a Day

Persondata
NAME	Kiarostami, Abbas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Film director, photographer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH	June 22, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tehran, Iran
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