Abbas Kiarostami ( Persian : عباس کیارستمی ‎; ^[1] born 22 June 1940) is an Iranian film director , screenwriter , photographer and film producer . ^{[2] [3] [4]} An active filmmaker since 1970, Kiarostami has been involved in over forty films, including shorts and documentaries .
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He is part of a generation of filmmakers in the Iranian New Wave , a Persian cinema movement that started in the late 1960s and includes pioneering directors such as Forough Farrokhzad , Sohrab Shahid Saless , Mohsen Makhmalbaf , Bahram Beizai , and Parviz Kimiavi .
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Kiarostami has a reputation for using child protagonists, for documentary-style narrative films, ^[6] for stories that take place in rural villages, and for conversations that unfold inside cars, using stationary mounted cameras.
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Kiarostami was born in Tehran . His first artistic experience was painting, which he continued into his late teens, winning a…