Abbas Kiarostami

Simplistically made and rich in content, Kiarostami's in-car digital experiment defies prohibitions and brings to the surface secrets and lies of the Iranian society, especially those related to the weak, in the eyes of the authorities, sex. — Abbas Kiarostami delivers a visual social experiment in the form of dialogues between an Iranian female driver and the people she hosts in her car, a closed micrograph about the country's society. — Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 2002

The great Abbas Kiarostami directed several masterpieces and this is one of them. Ηis art and his steadfast, implicit ethics bloom in all their glory. With his usual surgical precision and compassion, he produces a cinematic treasure that speaks to the heart. — A jeep runs through the hills of Kurdistan. An engineer and his two assistants are looking for a small village in the mountains. When they arrive, a young boy welcomes them, shows them where to stay and guides the engineer to an old, (sort of) dying woman's house. No one in the village knows what the engineer wants. Is he looking for archaeological finds? Does he want the old lady's property? Meanwhile, he spends his time getting to know the locals. — CinemAvvenire' Award | Venice Film Festival | 1999 FIPRESCI Prize | Venice Film Festival | 1999 Grand Special Jury Prize | Venice Film Festival | 1999

Life and art merge in a wonderful recording of a love story on and off-camera, a rare parallel and two-fold approach to the concept of erotic desire that survives in the wreckage of an earthquake-stricken region. — The relationship between Abbas Kiarostami and his actors during the filming of his previous film "And Life Goes On", focusing on the film's newly married couple and the actor's attempt to actually marry his co-worker. — Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 1994 Silver Hugo Best Film | Chicago International Film Festival | 1994 Critics Award | São Paulo International Film Festival | 1994

A journey with the purpose of suicide as an excuse for a film about our choice to live and our choices in life, awarded fairly with Palm d’Or as the culmination of a great filmography that set Iran on the world’s cinematic map. — A middle-aged man has decided to commit suicide and is desperately looking for someone to help him by burying him under a certain cherry tree. Eventually he finds a taxidermist who, for his own reasons, tells him that he will help him. — Palme d'Or | Cannes Film Festival | 1997

Kiarostami's fame crossed Iran's borders long ago, and his first film in the West was a wonderful story that drew inspiration from this aesthetic "moving". A lesson of adaptation to new conditions without altering the characteristics of the great director. — When a British writer arrives in Tuscany to present his book and give a lecture, an art lover seeking for a meaningful conversation with him, decides to give him her phone number with the hope of meeting up with him later. Although their first meeting is awkward, gradually, the discussion progresses from formal to more personal. The atmosphere becomes more intimate and their relationship more affectionate. Have they met before? — Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 2010 Best Actress (Juliette Binoche) | Cannes Film Festival | 2010