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Tag Archives: Abbas Kiarostami
The Wind Will Carry Us / Bad Ma Ra Khahad Bord (1999)
This idiosyncratic drama from Iran begins as a jeep winds through the hills of Kurdistan Read More »
Ten / Dah (2002) Abbas Kiarostami, Mania Akbari, Amina Maher, Kamran Adl
Ten, the latest film by Iranian master filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami Read More »
Shirin (2008) Abbas Kiarostami, Mahnaz Afshar, Pegah Ahangarani, Taraneh Alidoosti
A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star Read More »
Tickets (2005) Abbas Kiarostami, Ken Loach, Carlo Delle Piane, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Silvana De Santis
A train travels across Italy toward Rome. On board is a professor who daydreams a conversation with a love that never was Read More »
Through the Olive Trees (1994) Abbas Kiarostami, Mohamad Ali Keshavarz, Farhad Kheradmand, Zarifeh Shiva
The movie focuses on one of the events in Zendegi Edame Darad (1992) Read More »
24 Frames (2017) Abbas Kiarostami
What happens in the moments before and after a photograph is taken? 24 Frames answers this question and unites the two artistic languages Kiarostami dedicated his life to. Read More »
Copie conforme / Certified Copy (2010) Abbas Kiarostami, Juliette Binoche, William Shimell, Jean-Claude Carrière, Drama
James Miller has just written a book on the value of a copy versus the original work of art. Read More »
Hamshahri / Fellow Citizen (1983) Abbas Kiarostami, Documentary
On July 1983, lawmakers in Teheran decided to close off a section of the capital to regular traffic. Read More »
Tadjrebeh / The Experience (1973) Abbas Kiarostami, Parviz Naderi, Hossein Yarmohammadi
Earning his keep at a photography studio where he also sleeps, an orphan aspires to be closer to the object of his affection, an older girl from a higher social class.
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