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A comprehensive biography of the Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, and photographer, who made over forty films, including the Koker trilogy, Close-Up, and Taste of Cherry. Learn about his life, career, style, awards, and legacy in the Iranian New Wave and world cinema.
IMDb provides an extensive overview of the life and work of Abbas Kiarostami, one of the most influential Iranian filmmakers and artists. Learn about his career, his style, his collaborations, his awards, and his legacy.
Abbas Kiarostami, Iranian filmmaker who was known for experimenting with the boundaries between reality and fiction throughout a four-decade career. His work featured improvised performances, documentary textures, and real-life rhythms.
Jul 5, 2016 · The emotionally devastating news that the great Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has died from complications of cancer in Paris Monday is a jolt. His death marks a loss as historically and artistically significant as that of Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni or Jacques Rivette. First, please allow a personal memory.
Jul 5, 2016 · Award-winning Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami has died in Paris aged 76, Iranian news agencies report. He had been undergoing hospital treatment in France for cancer. Kiarostami stayed...
Considered by many to be one of the finest filmmakers the world has ever seen, Iranian auteur Abbas Kiarostami‘s works have inspired multiple generations of young students and aspiring directors. Through his poetic masterpieces, Kiarostami conducted striking existential examinations of life that transcended the limitations of the cinematic ...
Jul 5, 2016 · The Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, who died yesterday at the age of seventy-six, was simply one of the most original and influential directors in the history of cinema. He achieved...
Abbas Kiarostami, often hailed as Iran’s greatest filmmaker, whose searching, parable-like dramas of ordinary people and their problems reflected a poetic vision and a philosophical turn of mind ...
The filmmaker, artist and photographer Abbas Kiarostami, who has died following a series of operations for gastrointestinal cancer, singlehandedly put Iran on the map of world cinema.
Abbas Kiarostami. Writer: Certified Copy. Abbas Kiarostami was 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.
