Abbas Kiarostami
2) ABC Africa
Publisher
Mk2 Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Persian
Description
Uganda, March 2000. At the request of the UN's International Fund for Agricultural Development, Abbas Kiarostami and his assistant Seilollah Samadian arrive in Kampala. For ten days, their DV cameras capture and caress the faces of thousand children, all orphans, whose parents have died of AIDS. It records tears and laughter, music and silence, life and death. It attests to Africa's sunny resilience to so much suffering and disease.
3) 10
Publisher
MK2 Productions
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
Persian
Description
10: A documentary-style film paints a portrait of contemporary Iran, as seen through the eyes of one woman as she drives through the streets of Tehran over a period of several days. Her journey is comprised of ten conversations with various passengers -- including her young son, her sister, an old woman, a hitchhiking prostitute, and a jilted bride.
Abbas Kiarostami : 10 on Ten: In this documentary, Kiarostami gives an in-depth interview that is...
Series
Criterion collection volume 612
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Français
Appears on list
Description
What seems at first to be a straightforward tale of two people getting to know each other over the course of an afternoon gradually reveals itself as something richer, stranger, and trickier: a mind-bending reflection on authenticity, in art as well as in relationships. Both cerebrally and emotionally engaging, reminds us that love itself is an enigma.
6) Ten
Publisher
Mk2 Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Persian
Description
TEN sequences in the emotional lives of six women and the challenges that they face at one particular moment in those lives, that could just as easily be ten sequences in the emotional life of the one same woman...
Publisher
Mk2 Films
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
Persian
Description
A tale of one middle-aged man who wishes to die in a society where suicide is considered as an abomination. Driving in the hills above Tehran, he meets an assortment of different characters : Afghans, Kurds, Turks, prisoners of the desert, a soldier, a seminary student and a museum employee, each with reasons to turn down the job : fear, religious scruples and humanist revulsion at a life wilfully squandered.
Series
Criterion collection volume 990-992
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Persian
Description
Abbas Kiarostami first came to international attention for his wondrous, slyly self-referential trilogy of films set in the rural Iranian town of Koker. Poised delicately between fiction and documentary, comedy and tragedy, these lyrical fables exemplify both the gentle humanism and playful sleight of hand that defines the director's sensibility. Films include: Where Is The Friend's House? (1987); And Life Goes On (1992); Through The Olive Trees (1994)....
9) Close-up
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Persian
Description
Close-up: The true story of Hossain Sabzian, a poor, underemployed, divorced, father of two who is obsessed with the cinema. In 1989, Sabzian convinced the Ahankhah family that he was Iranian filmmaker Moshen Makhmalbaf (The Silence) and that he would cast them in his next film. Eventually, the family caught on to the ruse and contacted the authorities, leading to Sabzian's arrest. A journalist wrote a column about the incident that Kiarostami read....
10) 24 frames
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In his final film, Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami created a dialogue between his work as a filmmaker and his work as a photographer. A sustained meditation on the process of image making, 24 frames is a graceful and elegiac farewell from one of the giants of world cinema.
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