life changing Kiarostami films
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Taste of Cherry
Abbas Kiarostami · 1997
A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take on the job, but initially he has little luck. Eventually, Badii finds a man who is up for the task because he needs the money, but his new associate soon tries to talk him out of committing suicide.
Close-Up
Abbas Kiarostami · 1990
This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves.
Where Is The Friend's House?
Abbas Kiarostami · 1987
An 8 year old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school.
The Wind Will Carry Us
Abbas Kiarostami · 1999
Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural Kurdish 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.
24 Frames
Abbas Kiarostami · 2017
A collection of 24 short four-and-a-half minutes films inspired by still images, including paintings and photographs. An experimental project made by filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami in the last three years of his life.
Certified Copy
Abbas Kiarostami · 2010
In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged English writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano.
Through the Olive Trees
Abbas Kiarostami · 1994
Complications arise in a director's attempt to film a scene in Life, and Nothing More... (1992).
Life, and Nothing More…
Abbas Kiarostami · 1992
After the earthquake of Guilan, a film director and his son travel to the devastated area to search for the actors from the movie the director made there a few years previously. In their search, they see how people who have lost everything in the earthquake still have hope and try to live life to the fullest.
