Abbas Kiarostami ( عباس کیارستمی ) was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1940. He graduated from university with a degree in fine arts before starting work as a graphic designer. Abbas Kiarostami then joined the Center for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, where he started a film section, and he started his career as a producer in the short movie The Bread And Alley.Abbas Kiarostami has been a Director in some movies:
Certified Copy is about that In Tuscany to promote his latest book
..., a middle-aged British writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano. While there, a chance question reveals something deeper. Certified Copy is the deconstructed portrait of a marriage, acted with well-intentioned fervour by Juliette Binoche. In its very strangeness, and unworldliness, and utter unreality, 'Certified Copy' has a species of charm. In this film Abbas Kiarostami collaborates with Manuela Balsinelli, Bahman Kiarostami, Angelo Barbagallo, Luca Bigazzi, Charles Gillibert, Nathanaël Karmitz, Claire Dornoy, Gaetano Daniele, Caroline Eliacheff, Olivier Hespel, Fabienne Robineau, Franck-Pascal Alquinet, Stefano Picciarelli, Juliette Binoche, William Shimell, Sandra Berrebi.
The Wind Will Carry Us is about that Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result. Synopsis by IMVBox In this film Abbas Kiarostami collaborates with Lida Soltani, Farzad Sohrabi, Masoameh Salimi, Frangis Rahsepar, Masood Mansouri, Reihan Heidari, Shahpour Ghobadi, Noghre Asadi, Roushan Karam Elmi, Bahman Ghobadi, Mahmoud Kalari, Marin Karmitz, Jahangir Mirshekari, Mohammad Reza Delpak, Behzad Dorani, Peyman Yazdanian, Nick Biscardi, Mohammad Hassan Najm.
The Breaktime is about that A short film following a small boy on his journey back from school. Biography by IMVBox. In this film Abbas Kiarostami collaborates with Masoud Madani -, Rouhollah Emami.
The Wedding Suit is about that A woman orders a suit from a tailor for her young son to wear to her sister's wedding. The tailor's apprentice, together with two other teenage boys who work in the same building, devise a plan to try on the suit at night to see what it feels like. Things get a little complicated but in the morning, can they return the suit in time? In this film Abbas Kiarostami collaborates with Mousa Afshar, Changiz Sayyad, Ebrahim Forouzesh, Mohammad Fassih -, Mehdi Nekouei -, Masoud Zand -, Parviz Davayi, Firooz Malekzadeh, Babak Kazemi, Reza Hashemi.
Like Someone in Love is about that In Tokyo, sociology student, Akiko, moonlights as a high-end prostitute. Her jealous boyfriend, Noriaki, is suspicious, but does not know about her work. One night, she is assigned to Takashi, an elderly former university professor who is more interested in making her dinner than having sex. In this film, Kiarostami presents indefinite people with indefinite motivations and desires. 'Like Someone in Love' is a bracing slap to the face of not just these characters who have been slumming, pretending and withholding, but to many of us who might be going through life on some kind of autopilot. In this film Abbas Kiarostami collaborates with Bahman Kiarostami, Mohammad Reza Delpak, Reza Narimizadeh, Tadashi Okuno, Rin Takanashi, Ryô Kase, Katsumi Yanagijima, Nobuyuki Kikuchi, Elise Luguern, Charles Gillibert, Nathanaël Karmitz, Kenzô Horikoshi.
Shirin is about that A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the text -- long a favorite in Persi... In this film Abbas Kiarostami collaborates with Baran Kosari, Bita Farahi, Elnaz Shakerdoost, Fatemeh Motamed Aria, Golshifteh Farahani, Hamideh Kheirabadi, Hediyeh Tehrani, Homayoun Ershadi, Ladan Mostofi, Leila Hatami, Mahnaz Afshar, Mahtab Keramati, Negar Javaherian, Niki Karimi, Pantea Bahram, Pegah Ahangarani, Roya Nonahali, Setareh Eskandari, Taraneh Alidoosti, Zhaleh Olov, Rana Azadivar, Vishka Asayesh, Soraya Ghasemi, Roya Teymourian, Behnaz Jafari, Fariba Kowsari, Mahaya Petrossian, Leili Rashidi, Gohar Kheirandish, Yekta Naser, Kamand Amir Soleymani, Darya Ashoori, Fatemeh Goudarzi, Hamideh Razavi, Mohammad Reza Delpak, Mani Hashemian, Nikoo Kheradmand, Gelareh Kiazand, Reza Narimizadeh, Juliette Binoche, Arash Sadeghi.
Tickets is about that A train travels across Italy toward Rome. On board is a professor who daydreams a conversation with a love that never was, a family of Albanian refugees who switch trains and steal a ticket, three brash Scottish soccer fans en route to a match, and a complaining widow traveling to a memorial service for her late husband who's accompanied by a community-service volunteer who's assisting her. Interactions among these Europeans turn on class and nationalism, courtesy and rudeness, and opportunities for kindness. In this film Abbas Kiarostami collaborates with Mahmoud Kalari, Babak Karimi Tari, Ken Loach, Ermanno Olmi, Carlo Cresto Dina, Rebecca O'Brien, Domenico Procacci, Paul Trijbits, Gianluca Chiaretti, Jonathan Morris, Giovanni Ziberna, Carlo Delle Piane, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Silvana De Santis, Martin Compston, Gary Maitland, William Ruane, Chris Menges, Fabio Olmi, Paul Laverty, Fernanda Perez, George Fenton, Daniela Bassani, Maurizio Basile, Carole K. Millar.
Other films are:
Ten, Taste of Cherry, The White Balloon, Through The Olive Trees, Close Up, Two Solutions For One Problem, Willow and Wind, Life and Nothing More..., Crimson Gold, Meeting Leila, The Experience, The Report, Where Is the Friend's Home?, 76 Minutes and 15 Seconds with Abbas Kiarostami, Final Exam, Men at Work, The Key, 24 Frames, Recrudescence, The Journey, Five, First Graders, Homework, The Bread and Alley, So Can I, Tribute to the Teachers, ABC Africa, The Colours, How to Make Use of Leisure Time, Farda
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