#173 – Close-Up, (کلوزآپ ، نمای نزدیک), 1990, Abbas Kiarostami
This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves.
#187 – Certified Copy, (Copie conforme), 2010, Abbas Kiarostami
In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged English writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano.
#221 – A Separation, (جدایی نادر از سیمین), 2011, Asghar Farhadi
A married couple are faced with a difficult decision – to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer’s disease.
#965 – Taste of Cherry, (طعم گيلاس), 1997, Abbas Kiarostami
A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take on the job, but initially he has little luck. Eventually, Badii finds a man who is up for the task because he needs the money, but his new associate soon tries to talk him out of committing suicide.
#989 – Ten, (ده), 2002, Abbas Kiarostami
A visual social examination in the form of ten conversations between a driving woman and her various pick-ups and hitchhikers.
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