Abbas Kiarostami

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1. 1940 age 0

   Born

2. 1987 age 47

   CreditWhere is the Friend's Home?director

   CreditWhere is the Friend's Home?film editor

   CreditWhere is the Friend's Home?screenwriter

3. 1990 age 50

   CreditClose-Up

   CreditClose-Updirector

   CreditClose-Upfilm editor

   CreditClose-Upscreenwriter

4. 1992 age 52

   CreditLife, and Nothing More...director

   CreditLife, and Nothing More...film editor

   CreditLife, and Nothing More...screenwriter

5. 1994 age 54

   CreditThe White Balloonscreenwriter

   CreditThrough the Olive Treesdirector

   CreditThrough the Olive Treesfilm editor

   CreditThrough the Olive Treesproducer

   CreditThrough the Olive Treesscreenwriter

6. 1995 age 55

   CreditLumière and Companydirector

7. 1997 age 57

   CreditTaste of Cherrydirector

   CreditTaste of Cherryfilm editor

   CreditTaste of Cherryproducer

   CreditTaste of Cherryscreenwriter

8. 1999 age 59

   CreditThe Wind Will Carry Usdirector

   CreditThe Wind Will Carry Usfilm editor

   CreditThe Wind Will Carry Usproducer

   CreditThe Wind Will Carry Usscreenwriter

9. 2001 age 61

   CreditABC Africa

   CreditABC Africadirector

   CreditABC Africafilm editor

   CreditABC Africascreenwriter

10. 2002 age 62

    CreditTencinematographer

    CreditTendirector

    CreditTenfilm editor

    CreditTenproducer

11. 2007 age 67

    CreditTo Each His Own Cinemadirector

12. 2010 age 70

    CreditCertified Copydirector

    CreditCertified Copyscreenwriter

13. 2011 age 71

    CreditThe Story of Film: An Odyssey

14. 2012 age 72

    CreditLike Someone in Lovedirector

    CreditLike Someone in Loveproducer

    CreditLike Someone in Lovescreenwriter

15. 2016 age 76

    Died

• DLDavid Lynch3 titles
• WWWim Wenders3 titles
• MKMarin Karmitz3 titles
• BKBahman Kiarostami3 titles
• YCYoussef Chahine3 titles
• RPRoman Polanski2 titles
• GSGus Van Sant2 titles
• JCJane Campion2 titles
• LTLars von Trier2 titles
• AKAndrei Konchalovsky2 titles

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  Photo:Pedro J PachecoCC BY-SA 4.0

• 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.

  Abbas Kiarostami, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual.

  Abbas Kiarostami, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I feel like a tree. A tree doesn't feel a duty to start doing something about the earth from which it comes. A tree just has to bear fruit, and leaves and blossoms. It doesn't feel grateful to the earth.

  Abbas Kiarostami, CC BY-SA 4.0

• From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to tell a story. I wanted to show something, I wanted for them to make their own story from what they were seeing.

  Abbas Kiarostami, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Believe me, I am still very surprised that I managed to make that film [Close-Up]. When I actually look back on that film, I really feel that I was not the director but instead just a member of the audience. Because the film made itself, to a large extent. The characters involved were very real, I wasn't directing the actors so much as being directed by them. So it was a very particular film.

  Abbas Kiarostami, CC BY-SA 4.0

• My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated. This was pointed out to me by somebody who referred to the paintings of Rembrandt and his use of light: some elements are highlighted while others are obscured or even pushed back into the dark. And it's something that we do - we bring out elements that we want to emphasise. I'm not claiming or denying that I have done such a thing but I do believe in [[Robert Bresson|[Robert] Bresson]]'s method of creation through omission, not through addition.

  Abbas Kiarostami, CC BY-SA 4.0