Abbas Kiarostami

  • Víctor Erice & Abbas Kiarostami – Víctor Erice: Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondencias (2005 – 2007)

    Victor Erice2001-2010Abbas KiarostamiArthouseDocumentarySpain

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    Created for an innovative museum exhibition in Barcelona and Paris that paired the works of Víctor Erice and Abbas Kiarostami, Correspondences is composed of ten “filmed letters” between the two great filmmakers. As in their other films, children, imagination, and the creative process take center stage; in one, the young grandchildren of the painter from Erice’s The Quince Tree Sun show off their own unique styles, while in another nine-year-olds in a rural Spanish classroom watch Kiarostami’s Where Is the Friend’s Home? Kiarostami follows an “escaped quince” from the Spanish film to a neighborhood in Iran in one sequence, and plays with artistic perspective in another. “Modern messages in a bottle” (Miguel Marias), these not-so-simple video letters recognize no international stamps or borders, only the artistic and personal links between individuals.Read More »

  • Abbas Kiarostami – 24 Frames (2017)

    Abbas Kiarostami2011-2020ExperimentalIran

    24 Frames is an experimental project made by filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami in the last three years of his life. It is a collection of 24 short four-and-a-half minute films inspired by still images, including paintings and photographs.Read More »

  • Abbas Kiarostami – Ten (2002)

    2001-2010Abbas KiarostamiDramaIran

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    A visual social examination in the form of ten conversations between a driving woman and her various pick-ups and hitchhikers.

    Jonathan Romney for Screen Daily wrote:
    A defiantly no-frills exercise even by his ascetic standards, 10 is Abbas Kiarostami’s triumphant vindication of digital video’s potential to produce a kind of cinema that cannot be achieved by other means. This is screen minimalism at its most uncompromising: 10 sequences of varying length, shot with a locked-off DV camera, of people talking in a car, seemingly improvising around what may be a very loose script.Read More »

  • Abbas Kiarostami – 10 on Ten (2004)

    2001-2010Abbas KiarostamiArthouseDocumentaryIran

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    Documentary where Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami reflects on his own film-making techniques, drawing from his own films – and 2001’s Ten in particular.

    An IMDb reviewer wrote:
    This isn’t so much a documentary as it is an 80 minute class with Iranian auteur Abbas Kiarstomi. Using his movie “Ten” as an example, he breaks down his theory of filmaking in 10 chapters, ranging from his preference of camera, to his take on character and directing.Read More »

  • Abbas Kiarostami – Mossafer AKA The traveler (1974) (HD)

    1971-1980Abbas KiarostamiArthouseDramaIran

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    A grade-school-age boy, neglected by his parents, lies, cheats, and steals to accumulate enough money to afford a bus ride to a large city and a ticket to see his favorite soccer team play.Read More »

  • Abbas Kiarostami – Az Oghat-e Faraghat-e Khod Chegouneh Estefadeh Konim? AKA How to Make Use of Our Leisure Time? (1977)

    1971-1980Abbas KiarostamiIranShort Film

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    Evidently the first installment in a series that didn’t continue, this instructional film shows idle twelve- and sixteen-year-
old brothers learning how to improve their surroundings by painting an old door. With the narrator giving step-by-step instructions, the boys go through the processes of sanding, applying primer, and mixing different types of paint. Whatever its educational value, the film’s quiet enthusiasm for its subject also reflects Kiarostami’s own interest in woodworking.Read More »

  • Abbas Kiarostami – Mossafer aka The Traveller (1974)

    1971-1980Abbas KiarostamiArthouseDramaIran

    Synopsis
    The Traveler is a 1974 Iranian drama film directed by Abbas Kiarostami that tells the story of Hassan Darabi, a troublesome, amoral 10-year-old boy in a small Iranian town. He wishes to see the Iran national football team play an important match in Tehran. In order to achieve that, he scams his friends and neighbors. After a number of adventures, he finally reaches Tehran stadium at the time of the match. The film addresses the boy’s determination in his goal and his indifference to the effects of his actions on other people, particularly those who are closest to him. In its element, the film is an examination of human behavior and the balance of right and wrong.Read More »

  • Abbas Kiarostami – Ta’m e guilass AKA Taste of Cherry (1997)

    1991-2000Abbas KiarostamiArthouseDramaIran

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    An Iranian man drives his truck in search of someone who will quietly bury him under a cherry tree after he commits suicide.Read More »

  • Abbas Kiarostami – Khane-ye doust kodjast? AKA Where Is the Friend’s House? (1987)

    1981-1990Abbas KiarostamiArthouseIran

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    The first film in Abbas Kiarostami’s sublime, interlacing Koker Trilogy takes a simple premise—a boy searches for the home of his classmate, whose school notebook he has accidentally taken—and transforms it into a miraculous child’s-eye adventure of the everyday. As our young hero zigzags determinedly across two towns, aided (and sometimes misdirected) by those he encounters, his quest becomes both a revealing portrait of rural Iranian society in all its richness and complexity and a touching parable about the meaning of personal responsibility. Sensitive and profound, Where Is the Friend’s House? is shot through with all the beauty, tension, and wonder a single day can contain.Read More »

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