Abbas Kiarostami

Abbas Kiarostami Persian عباس کیارستمی ʔæbˌbɒːs kijɒːɾostæˈmi June 22 1940 July 4 2016 was an Iranian film director screenwriter poet photographer and film producer An active filmmaker from 1970 Kiarostami had been involved in the production of over forty films including shorts and documentaries Kiarostami attained critical acclaim for directing the Koker trilogy 19871994 CloseUp 1990 The Wind Will Carry Us 1999 and Taste of Cherry 1997 which was awarded the Palme dOr at the Cannes Film Festival that year In later works Certified Copy 2010 and Like Someone in Love 2012 he filmed for the first time outside Iran in Italy and Japan respectively His films Where Is the Friends Home 1987 CloseUp and The Wind Will Carry Us were ranked among the 100 best foreign films in a 2018 critics poll by BBC Culture CloseUp was also ranked one of the 50 greatest movies of all time in the famous decennial Sight Sound poll conducted in 2012 Kiarostami had worked extensively as a screenwriter film editor art director and producer and had designed credit titles and publicity material He was also a poet photographer painter illustrator and graphic designer He was part of a generation of filmmakers in the Iranian New Wave a Persian cinema movement that started in the late 1960s and emphasized the use of poetic dialogue and allegorical storytelling dealing with political and philosophical issues Kiarostami had a reputation for using child protagonists for documentarystyle narrative films for stories that take place in rural villages and for conversations that unfold inside cars using stationary mounted cameras He is also known for his use of Persian poetry in the dialogue titles and themes of his films Kiarostamis films contain a notable degree of ambiguity an unusual mixture of simplicity and complexity and often a mix of fictional and documentary elements The concepts of change and continuity in addition to the themes of life and death play a major role in Kiarostamis works Description above from the Wikipedia article Abbas Kiarostami licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia