Three Cultures Foundation dedicates October to the famous Iranian director, Abbas Kiarostami recently deceased, who has left us his precious legacy composed of a complete list of film that raised him to the top of the directors.
Born in 1940 in Tehran, Kiarostami worked as a writer, editor, art director and producer. As a poet, he published a collection of his poems in 1999.
In the 60s he began the new wave of Iranian cinema, which belonged Masoud Kimiai, Sohrab Shahid Saless, Dariush Mehrjui, Bahram Beyzai, Nasser Taghvai or Parviz Kimiavi. They ran the poetic dialogue and allegory script to deal with political and philosophical issues.
With the first film of the trilogy Koker ‘Where is the Friend’s Home?’ A beautiful story of the attempt of a child to return the workbook to a classmate, won her major award, the Bronze Leopard of Locarno festival and achieved an international reputation as a director with a considerable sensitivity and intellectual rigor.
In 1997 his film ‘Taste of Cherry’ consolidated its international fame after being awarded at Cannes. Behind were coming, ‘The Wind Will Carry Us’ 1999, ‘ABC Africa’, 2001, ‘Ten’ 2002, ‘Five’, 2004, for which he won more than seventy awards and so almost thirty titles, most of them forbidden in his country, where he decided to stay after the revolution.
His penultimate film, Certified Copy won the Golden Spike in SEMINCI 55, by which Juliette Binoche won the Best Actress Award at Cannes 2010-, was also banned in Iran.
It aroused interest and obtain the recognition of many successful directors, including the Spanish Victor Erice, Jean-Luc Godard, Kurosawa or Tarantino.
We have selected a sample that includes ‘Spotlight’, ‘Taste of Cherry’, ‘Ten’ and ‘Certified Copy’.
We hope that this tribute will please our audience.