Abbas Kiarostami’s Shirin is a perfect example of experimental filmmaking. The film is based on the epic poem Khosrow and Shirin by Nizami Ganjavi. However, Kiarostami is not interested in merely presenting the poem in the film. He has always experimented with different filmmaking styles and enriched films as one of the most important mediums …
Abbas Kiarostami’s Ten portrays the indescribable plight and struggle of Iranian women in modern Iran. Kiarostami’s films always deal with serious issues like life, death, the afterlife, spirituality, suicide, etc., and represent the lives and culture of ordinary Iranians. His films are replete with the enormous natural beauty of Rural Iran. However, in this film, …
Kiarostami’s The Wind Will Carry Us is a poetic film. A journalist named Behzad (Behzad Dourani) visits a Kurdish Iranian village to shoot the funeral rituals of a hundred-year-old woman. After spending a couple of weeks there, he finally abandons the mission and is about to leave the village when the old woman dies. As …
Abbas Kiarostami’s Life and Nothing More… is the 2nd film of the Koker Trilogy. In this film, an alter ego of Kiarostami, Farhad Kheradmand, sets out for Koker by car with his adolescent son Pouya in search of the young actors featured in the first film of the Koker Trilogy, Where Is the Friend’s Home?, …
Through the Olive Trees is the third and final film of Abbas Kiarostami’s Koker trilogy. Like the other two films of the trilogy – Where Is the Friend’s Home? and Life and Nothing More – this film too is set in the village named Koker in Northern Iran. Like many of his films, Kiarostami portrays …
Abbas Kiarostami’s Where Is the Friend’s Home? is a heart-touching story of a schoolboy who goes to his neighboring village to return his friend’s notebook so that he does not get expelled by the schoolteacher the next day. The film shows how efficiently a filmmaker can make a film based on children and highlight their …
Close-Up established Abbas Kiarostami strongly as a major international filmmaker. It is based on the true story of a man named Hossain Sabzian who impersonated famous Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf and was arrested subsequently. Close-Up is based on the real-life trial of Hossain Sabzian. The film deals with important issues like personal identity, poverty, ambition, …
World-famous Iranian film genius Abbas Kiarostami made multiple important films during his lifetime. Taste of Cherry is one of his most important and celebrated works. Kiarostami’s works deal with serious issues like life, death, the afterlife, spirituality, separation, isolation, divorce, and acceptance. He always made films based on what life had taught him. Humanity was …
Denis Villeneuve’s Incendies is an utterly serious and strong film. Even though it is a Canadian film, the story is mostly set in an unnamed country, which is very much similar to Lebanon in the Middle East. The film is both violent and emotional. It deals with very serious issues like civil war, communalism, murder, …
Susanne Bier’s In a Better World depicts incidents in two different corners of the world – a small rural town in Denmark and a deserted refugee camp in Africa. On one side, the film deals with revenge, war, warlords, hatred, merciless tortures, break up, bullying, and on the other side, the film shows friendship, love, …