Director – Abbas Kiarostami
Abbas Kiarostami received widespread critical acclaim over time not only in Iran but across the world. He began his filmmaking journey in the 1960s but started receiving international recognition from Where Is the Friend’s Home? onwards. He was one of the very few filmmakers who did not leave Iran after the Islamic Revolution in 1979. …
Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy certifies the copies and strongly argues that even the originals are also copies. Nothing in this world is absolutely original. However, the copies are not less standard. There are times when originals are not accessible, copies fulfill our needs. In this film, Kiarostami has woven a story between a British art …
Abbas Kiarostami’s Five Dedicated to Ozu is a unique cinematic experience. Films do not necessarily always portray stories. Sometimes, non-narrative shots convey more meaning than merely describing a story. Those become integral parts of a film and most importantly depict life on screen. Five Dedicated to Ozu consists of five long shots of nature without …
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, 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, his …
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 the …
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 great Abbas Kiarostami strongly as a major international filmmaker. It is based on a 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, …