Abbas Kiarostami

Born: 1940-06-22

Abbas Kiarostami was a director and scriptwriter who was born in 1940 in Tehran, Iran. He was a famous director and scriptwriter in Iran and across the world. His first movies were “The Bread and Alley”, “Breaktime” and “The Traveler”. He was also interested in photography, music, and painting. He has won a lot of awards such as Golden Palm for “Taste of Cherry” from Cannes Film Festival, the Crystal Simorgh of Jury for “Close-Up”. His other notable work include his ‘Koker trilogy’, and the films “Like Someone in Love” and “Certified Copy.”


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Close-Up

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Released: 1990-05-09

This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on...

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Through the Olive Trees

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Released: 1994-02-01

Complications arise in a director's attempt to film a scene in Life, and Nothing more... (1992).

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Kurosawa's Way

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Released: 2011-05-13

Eleven major film makers from Europe, America and Asia talk about Akira Kurosawa and discover...

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Behind the Scenes of 'Under the Olive Trees'

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Released: 1994-12-31

A documentary by Hamideh Sharif Rad about Abbas Kiarostami's "Through the Olive Trees" (1994).

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Ahmad Shamlou: Master Poet of Liberty

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Released: 1999-01-01

A documentary about the most important modern Iranian poet and intellectual icon. Iranian poet...

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Abbas Kiarostami: A Report

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Released: 2013-01-01

A look at the formation of the career of Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami.

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Roads of Kiarostami

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Released: 2006-08-05

Static shots of his photos alternate with footage of director Abbas Kiarostami's car winding...

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10 Days with Kiarostami

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Released: 2005-06-03

10 Days with Kiarostami

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Abbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living

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Released: 2003-01-01

Through an interview with Kiarostami in the Aran Islands and interviews with film critics and...

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ABC Africa

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Released: 2001-10-24

Abbas Kiarostami shoots a documentary about the AIDS crisis in Uganda.

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Let's See Copia Conforme

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Released: 2010-01-01

A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Abbas Kiarostami’s "Certified Copy" (2010).

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What Is Cinema?

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Released: 2013-09-06

Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock...

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76 Minutes and 15 seconds with Abbas Kiarostami

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Released: 2016-08-31

Kiarostami as we have never really known him before, despite the transformative power of his...

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Chaplin Today: 'The Kid'

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Released: 2003-03-02

This documentary is featured on the two-disc Chaplin Collection DVD for "The Kid" (1921),...

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Homework

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Released: 1989-02-01

Young male students at a local Iranian school are asked about their feelings on homework.

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The Poetry of Cinema: Abbas Kiarostami in Conversation with Richard Peña

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Released: 2014-07-22

Onstage interview with filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami and Richard Richard Peña

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Víctor Erice – Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondences

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Released: 2007-05-05

Relationships and multiple influences between two great directors of modern cinema.

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The Mirror of Possible Worlds: Kiarostami on Aran

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Released: 2020-11-04

“Nature, the inexhaustible resource of encounters worthy of speechless communication,” declares...

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Vida

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Released: 2014-11-20

Acclaimed Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami, delivers a film workshop in Bogotá, the...

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10 on Ten

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Released: 2004-05-26

"10 on Ten" is a 2004 Iranian documentary film directed by Abbas Kiarostami. It was screened in...

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Guest

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Released: 2011-03-25

Filmmaker José Luis Guerin documents his experience during a year of traveling as a guest of...

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A Good Time for Tragedy

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Released: 2005-01-01

A documentary dealing with the life of Ahmadreza Ahmadi, an Iranian Poet.

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Kiarostami in Close up

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Released: 2000-01-01

A documentary that focuses on Abbas Kiarostami's cinematic philosophy talking to himself and...

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Journey to the Land of the Traveler

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Released: 2004-03-18

Twenty years after The Traveler was made, Kiarostami's son filmed his father as he reunited with...

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Taste of Shirin

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Released: 2008-12-12

A short documentary about the making of Abbas Kiarostami's 'Shirin'.

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A Week With Kiarostami

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Released: 1999-11-01

Mohara Yuji's documentary A Week with Kiarostami, filmed on the set of The Wind Will Carry Us. A...

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Abbas Kiarostami: Truths and Dreams

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Released: 1994-11-28

A documentary about Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami first aired on the French television...

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Project

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Released: 1997-01-01

A thirty-nine minute sketch film for TASTE OF CHERRY that Abbas Kiarostani made with his son...

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Sodankylä Forever

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Released: 2010-08-05

The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the...

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Making of 'Like Someone in Love'

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Released: 2012-10-01

Documentary with behind-the-scenes footage on the set of Abbas Kiarostomi's 2012 film "Like...

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On the Road with Kiarostami

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Released: 2005-05-01

Abbas Kiarostami is the most acclaimed Iranian film director whose films have won prizes all...

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Around Five

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Released: 2005-01-01

Abbas Kiarostami on his film Five Dedicated to Ozu.

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Print

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Released: 2019-01-08

A short documentary from footage of the making of Kiarostami's 2017 film 24 FRAMES.

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In Praise of the Seventy Years Old

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Released: 2010-01-01

This interview-based documentary is made on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Aydin...

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A Walk with Kiarostami

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Released: 2003-11-22

U.S.-based film professor Jamsheed Akrami talks to Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami in an...

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TropiAbbas

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Released: 2005-01-01

An Iranian filmmaker, a female taxi driver and a class a about cinema.

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Leech

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Released: 2021-09-26

Leeches a film by bahman kiarostami

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Abbas Kiarostami: Leçon de cinéma

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Released: 2002-01-01

Abbas Kiarostami about the making of "The Wind Will Carry Us"

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