Abbas Kiarostami


  • Date of Birth: 22 June, 1940
  • Place of Birth: Tehran, Iran
  • Biography: Abbas Kiarostami (Persian: عباس کیارستمی `Abbās Kiyārostamī; born 22 June 1940) is an Iranian film director, screenwriter, and film producer. An active filmmaker since 1970, Kiarostami has been involved in over forty films, including shorts and documentaries. Kiarostami attained critical acclaim for directing the Koker trilogy, Taste of Cherry, and... Read more

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MUMBAI: The 2009 Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) has attracted a record 212 film entries from 43 countries. A total of 126 feature films, 51 documentaries, 18 animated feature films and 17 children's feature films will be considered for nominations... ... Full Article

"When repression grows, so does creativity", says Juliette Binoche from the Tuscan set of the latest film by Abbas Kiarostami , Copia Conforme . The Iranian director is wrapping up shooting while in Tehran the police are once again attacking... ... Full Article

In faraway Finnish Lapland, around 120km from Rovaniemi (the official residence of Santa Claus), and above the Arctic Circle, sits the village of Sodankyla. It is not an especially prepossessing place. ... Full Article

Next time you go to the flicks, turn around and spend the whole film staring at the audience. You're sure to have as rewarding an experience as that offered by Abbas Kiarostami in this austere experiment, an interminable series of... ... Full Article

After completing And Life Goes On and Through the Olive Trees, two more films set around the earthquake-devastated village of Koker which, together, are often seen as his masterpiece, in 1997 he made Taste of Cherry, in which a man... ... Full Article

The refusal last month of Abbas Kiarostami, the great Iranian film director, to suffer the pointless indignities and hassle of the government's new visa rules resulted in him calling off a visit to Britain to mount his production of Cos?... ... Full Article

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