Abbas Kiarostami

Abbas Kiarostami at IFFR

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  De wind zal ons meenemen

  New film by Kiarostami is set in a Kurdish Iranian village where an ‘engineer’ is looking for an archaeological treasure, according to the villagers,

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  Roads of Kiarostami

  Poetic short film filled with poetry by master filmmaker and photographer Kiarostami about one of his favourite subjects: roads.

  • Short: As Long As It Takes
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  Shirin

  A real experiment by Iranian master Kiarostami, in which he watches 112 Iranian actresses, plus the famous Juliette Binoche, while they view a perform

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• Homework
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  Ten

  Stunning mix of documentary and fiction. Minimal portrait of Iranian women with the maximum effect: his mastery is revealed in the limitations.

  • True Stories
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  Crimson Gold

  Not to be missed: how a breathless pizza delivery boy with a heart of gold gets in the chasm between rich and poor in Teheran. Micro realism on a macr

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  The White Balloon

  Last December, Jafar Panahi and his fellow filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof were sentenced by a Revolutionary Court to six years imprisonment. They were al

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  Five

  The master investigates the vague boundaries of documentary practice. Five scenes, five lengthy registrations, no actors, no script. Light, airy medit

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  A.B.C. Africa

  The Iranian master Kiarostami travelled to Kampala, Uganda with two DV cameras to research a documentary about AIDS and the 1.6 million orphans in the

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• En het leven gaat door

  In 1990 two earthquakes destroyed large areas of Northern Iran. Forty thousand people died and fifty thousand were wounded. It was in this same region that Kiarostami shot his feature film Where is the House of my Friend? in 1987. As a result, he decided to return to the area later with his son to […]

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