The Three Cultures Foundation dedicates October to the recently deceased famous Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, who has left us his valuable legacy of a complete list of films that have been elevated to the top of the directors' list.
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.
The 1960s saw the beginning of the new wave of Iranian cinema, which belonged to Masoud Kimiai, Sohrab Shahid Saless, Dariush Mehrjui, Bahram Beyzai, Nasser Taghvai and Parviz Kimiavi. They directed the poetic dialogue and allegorical script to address political and philosophical issues.
With the first film in Koker's trilogy Where's Home for Friends? A beautiful story of a classmate's attempt, he won his top prize, the Bronze Leopard festival in Locarno, and achieved an international reputation as a director of great sensitivity and intellectual rigour.
In 1997 his film 'Taste of Cherry' consolidated his international fame after winning an award at Cannes. After that came 'The Wind Will Carry Us' 1999, 'ABC Africa', 2001, 'Ten' 2002, 'Five', 2004, for which he won more than seventy awards and almost thirty titles, most of them banned in his country, where he decided to stay after the revolution.
Her penultimate film, Certified Copy won the Golden Spike at SEMINCI 55, for which Juliette Binoche won the Best Actress Award at Cannes 2010, was also banned in Iran.
Victor Erice, Jean-Luc Godard, Kurosawa or Tarantino.
We have selected a sample including 'Spotlight', 'Taste of Cherry', 'Ten' and 'Certified Copy'.
We hope this tribute will please our audience.