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Abbas Kiarostami on Digital Camera
Correspondences: Víctor Erice and Abbas Kiarostami
Abbas Kiarostami at the SF Intl Film Festival
- 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
Filmography
- Copie conforme (2009)
- Shirin (2008)
- Chacun son cinéma ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumière s'éteint et que le film commence (2007)
- Kargaran mashghoole karand (2006)
- Tickets (2005)
- TropiAbbas (2005)
- Ten (2002)
- Ta'm e guilass (1998)
- Lumière et compagnie (Lumière and Company) (1996)
- Badkonake sefid (1995)
- À propos de Nice, la suite (1995)
- Khane-ye doust kodjast? (1990)
News
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
A life in cinema: Abbas Kiarostami
guardian.co.uk –
2009-06-12
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
New visa rules are a barrier to art
telegraph.co.uk –
2009-06-08
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