TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami’s 2010 ‘Certified Copy’, the late master’s first dramatic feature made outside Iran, has been selected as one of the 10 best films of the decade by The Associated Press.

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In addition, “Along with Wind”, a documentary by Mehdi Shadizadeh about the life of Kiarostami and his artistic career, will go on screen at the Art and Experience Cinemas on his birthday.

Kiarostami, born June 22 in Tehran, is hailed as one of the most visionary figures in international cinema.

He made his directing and screenwriting debut in 1970 with ‘The Bread and Alley’. He first earned international acclaim and recognition in 1987 with ‘Where is the Friend’s Home?’, the story of a child’s self-imposed journey to find his friend’s house so he can give him a lost notebook full of important homework.

His ‘Taste of Cherry’ (1997) was awarded the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival that year.

Kiarostami died on 4 July 2016 at age 76 in Paris, while undergoing treatment.

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Kiarostami belongs to which was known as golden era of Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults.

Kiarostami was born in June 22, 1940 and died in July 4, 2016. He was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer and film producer.

An active film-maker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in over forty films, including shorts and documentaries.

The Traveler directed by Kiarostami is regarded as the best film for children before the Islamic Revolution.

The movie narrates the story of a boy (Hassan Darabi) tries to scrape together enough money to buy a ticket for a soccer game.

The Bread and Alley by Kiarostami also won the arbitration committee award in the 5th International Film Festival for Children and Youths in 1970.

A Wedding Suit also won 1976 diploma of arbitration committee, Iran national TV award in the 11th International Film Festival for Children and Youths and the diploma of honor at 1977 Moscow international film festival.

Kiarostami’s First Graders received the special award of the jury at 1986 Fajr Film Fetival.

\Where Is the Friend’s Home?, And Life Goes On (1992) (also known as Life and Nothing More), and Through the Olive Trees (1994) are described by critics as the Koker trilogy, because all three films feature the village of Koker in northern Iran. 

The films also relate to the 1990 Manjil–Rudbar earthquake, in which 40,000 people died. 

Kiarostami uses the themes of life, death, change, and continuity to connect the films. 

The trilogy was successful in France in the 1990s and other Western European countries such as the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany and Finland.

But, Kiarostami did not consider the three films to comprise a trilogy. He suggested that the last two titles plus Taste of Cherry (1997) comprise a trilogy, given their common theme of the preciousness of life.

In 1987, Kiarostami was involved in the screenwriting of The Key, which he edited but did not direct. In 1989, he released Homework.

Prix Roberto Rossellini (1992), Prix Cine Decouvertes (1992), François Truffaut Award (1993), Pier Paolo Pasolini Award (1995), Federico Fellini Gold Medal, UNESCO (1997), Palme d’Or, Cannes Film Festival (1997), Honorary Golden Alexander Prize, Thessaloniki International Film Festival (1999), Silver Lion, Venice Film Festival (1999), Akira Kurosawa Award (2000), Honorary doctorate, École Normale Supérieure (2003) Konrad Wolf Prize (2003), President of the Jury for Caméra d’Or Award, Cannes Festival (2005), Fellowship of the British Film Institute (2005), Gold Leopard of Honor, Locarno International Film Festival (2005), Prix Henri-Langlois Prize (2006), Honorary doctorate, University of Toulouse (2007), World’s great masters, Kolkata International Film Festival (2007), Glory to the Filmmaker Award, Venice Film Festival (2008), Honorary doctorate, University of Paris (2010), Lifetime Achievement Award for Contribution to World Cinematography (BIAFF – Batumi International Art-house film Festival, 2010), Japan’s Medal of Honor (2013), Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (2014) and Honorary Golden Orange Prize, International Antalya Film Festival (2014) were among Kiarostami’s awards.

The 31st edition of International Film Festival for Children and Youth is slated for August 30- September 5 in Isfahan Province.

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An Iranian official announced on Sunday that the court judging the case for Abbas Kiarostami’s death has issued its final verdict reprimanding the guilty surgeon.

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The portraits are from a collection by Gelareh Kiazand who will organize the exhibition “Shirin – Abbas Kiarostami” to commemorate the second anniversary of his death.

“Shirin” is simply a parade of close-ups of 114 Iranian famous Iranian stage and screen actresses, and French star Juliette Binoche, who are mute spectators at a theatrical representation of the Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian love story from the twelfth century. The development of the text remains invisible to the viewer of the film; the whole story is told by the faces of the women watching the show.

“I never made ‘Shirin’,” Kiarostami had said in 2009 during a workshop in Tehran, “I only prepared the environment that helped the actresses express their feelings.”

He won the 1997 Palme d’Or at Cannes for “Taste of Cherry” and the 1999 Venice Grand Jury Prize for “The Wind Will Carry Us”.

The exhibit will run until June 27 at the gallery located at 148 Karim Khan Ave.

Photo: French actress Juliette Binoche in a scene from Abbas Kiarostami’s acclaimed 2008 movie “Shirin”

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The award, which has been named after Kiarostami’s 1990 masterwork “Close-Up”, will be presented to the best film, best director and best actor and actress.

The festival, which aims to promote and introduce Iranian cinema, will be held in Dallas, Texas from November 10 to 12.

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“76 Minutes and 15 Seconds with Abbas Kiarostami”, which is a montage film made by Kiarostami’s close friend Seifollah Samadian, and Kiarostami’s “The Traveler”, “The Wind Will Carry Us” and “Through the Olive Trees” will also go on screen during the festival.

Kiarostami’s son Ahmad, actor Homayun Ershadi, interpreter Tufan Garekani, producer Charles Gillibert, sound editor Ensieh Maleki and assistant director Ali Kamali are in Beirut to attend the event.

In addition, the festival is screening four films by Iranian directors in various sections.

“A Girl in the Room” by Karim Lakzadeh, “The Guy Came on Horseback” by Hossein Rabiei Dastjerdi and “Alan” by Mostafa Gandomkar are competing in the short film section, while “Sheltered in Oak” by Mehdi Nurmohammadi has been selected for the documentary film section.

The festival opened in the Lebanese capital on Wednesday and will run until October 12.

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