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Abbas Kiarostami 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 (1987–1994), Close-Up (1990), The Wind Will Carry Us (1999), and Taste of Cherry (1997), which w…
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Born 22 June 1940 · Died 4 July 2016 · Q55210
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I would like to thank ... ENO for the understanding and support they have shown in this very complicated but delicate situation. They respected my position and my principles in spite of the obvious fact that it was putting them in a very precarious and disagreeable position. I have to confess that this gives me hope; the world is still a liveable place malgré tout ...
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“I would like to thank ... ENO for the understanding and support they have shown in this very complicated but delicate situation. They respected my position and my principles in spite of the obvious fact that it was putting them in a very precarious and disagreeable position. I have to confess that this gives me hope; the world is still a liveable place malgré tout ...”
“what the film is dealing with is the difference between the”
“We can never get close to the truth except through lying.”
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The Guardian: Tonight’s Homework review – Kiarostami-inspired snapshot of Iran’s wealth gap
Akbari accused Kiarostami of raping her twice, in Tehran when she was 25 and he was about 60, and in London after Ten had premiered
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Akbari and Maher revealed that they had been asking distributor MK2 to halt circulation of the film, to which MK2 has yet to respond
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The Guardian: Kiarostami to Panahi: photographs by Iranian film-makers – in pictures
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The Washington Post: Abbas Kiarostami, celebrated Iranian director, dies at 76
The New Yorker: Postscript: Abbas Kiarostami, 1940—2016
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The Guardian: Abbas Kiarostami: a highly sophisticated, self-possessed master of cinematic poetry | Peter Bradshaw
The Guardian: Abbas Kiarostami, Palme d'Or-winning Iranian film-maker, dies aged 76
Filmmaker: Cinema Great Abbas Kiarostami Dies at 76
Yahoo: Abbas Kiarostami, Palme d'Or-winning Iranian film director, dies at 76
Yahoo: Iranian Filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami Dies at 76
Deadline.com: Abbas Kiarostami Dies: Iranian ‘Taste Of Cherry’ Director Was 76; Martin Scorsese Calls Him “One Of Our Great Artists”
Died 2016-07-04.
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“To be international, you have to first be local. ... When you take a tree that is rooted in the ground, and transfer it from one place to another, the tree will no longer bear fruit. And if it does, the fruit will not be as good as it was in its original place. This is a rule of nature. I think if I had left my country, I would be the same as the tree.”
And were published in bilingual (Persian/English) editions by Sticking Place Books in New York
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Awarded Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (2014).
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Awarded Annual award ACFK presented by Association of Czech Film Clubs (2012).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the Sorbonne Nouvelle University (2010).
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Kiarostami directed the feature Shirin, which features close-ups of many notable Iranian actresses and the French actress Juliette Binoche as they watch a film based on a partly mythological Persian romance tale of Khosr
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Toulouse-II (2007).
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The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 co-organized a festival of the Kiarostami's work titled Abbas Kiarostami: Image Maker
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The Guardian's panel of critics ranked Kiarostami as the best contemporary non-American film director
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Kiarostami contributed the central section to Tickets, a portmanteau film set on a train traveling through Italy
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London Film School organized a workshop as well as the festival of Kiarostami's work, titled "Abbas Kiarostami: Visions of the Artist"
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“We were supposed to make films that dealt with childhood problems. At the beginning it was just a job, but it was the making of me as an artist.”
Awarded Praemium Imperiale (2004).
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Awarded honorary doctorate from ENS (2003).
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Awarded Konrad Wolf Prize (2003).
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Awarded honorary doctor of Ca' Foscari University of Venice (2003).
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Before being performed at the English National Opera in London in 2004
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Kiarostami directed Five, a poetic feature with no dialogue or characterization
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Kiarostami and his assistant, Seifollah Samadian, traveled to Kampala, Uganda at the request of the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development, to film a documentary about programs assisting Ugandan o
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At the San Francisco Film Festival award ceremony, Kiarostami was awarded the Akira Kurosawa Prize for lifetime achievement in directing, but surprised everyone by giving it away to veteran Iranian actor Behrooz Vossough
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Was voted the most important Iranian film director of the 1990s by two international critics' polls
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Also published a collection of his poems
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Which won the Grand Jury Prize (Silver Lion) at the Venice International Film Festival
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Miramax Films released Through the Olive Trees in the US theaters
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Kiarostami directed Life, and Nothing More
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Kiarostami was involved in the screenwriting of The Key, which he edited but did not direct
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The Locarno International Film Festival in 1990, the San Sebastian International Film Festival in 1996, the São Paulo International Film Festival in 2004, the Capalbio Cinema Festival in 2007 (in which he was president o
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Kiarostami was one of the few directors who remained in Iran after the 1979 revolution, when many of his peers fled the country.
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Produced and directed First Case, Second Case
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Kiarostami directed two short films So Can I and Two Solutions for One Problem
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When the Iranian New Wave began with Dariush Mehrjui's film Gāv, Kiarostami helped set up a filmmaking department at the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (Kanoon) in Tehran
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Kiarostami had major differences with his experienced cinematographer about how to film the boy and the attacking dog
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Kiarostami married Parvin Amir-Gholi
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Born 1940-06-22.
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