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filmes na 28ª MOSTRA:
10 on Ten, 2003
ABC Africa, 2001
First Graders, 1984
The Wind Will Carry Us, 1999
Five, 2004
The Report, 1977
Where Is My Friend`s Home?, 1987
Homework, 1989
The Traveller, 1974
Close Up, 1990
A Taste of Cherry, 1996
Ten, 2002
And Life Goes on, 1991
Through the Olive Trees/Under the Olive Trees, 1994
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Once again in São Paulo for the Mostra, the Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami is holding a cinema workshop and a master class at the Alvares Penteado Foundation (FAAP), one of the Mostra’s supporters. Furthermore, the director will launch his exhibition, On the Roads of Kiarostami, featuring 52 black and white photos of the many roads captured by his camera in Iran’s north borders between 1978 and 2003. The exhibit is staged in collaboration with the Torino Museo Nazionale del Cinema, where the photos were first displayed in 2003. During the 28th Mostra, the same exhibition will be held at FAAP.
Also during the 28th Mostra, Cosac & Naify and Mostra host the world launch of the photobook Abbas Kiarostami. As well as bringing exclusive photos taken by the director himself, the book contains three new articles and four poems by Kiarostami, his complete commented filmography, and also the essay Reality, Heads and Tails, by the French-Iranian movie critic Youssef Ishagpour.
Kiarostami was born in Teheran in 1940 and attended the Fine Arts School at Teheran University. In 1969, he founded the Cinema Department of the Center for Intellectual Development of Children and Youngsters, which became a reference school for well-known Iranian filmmakers such as Dariush Mehrjui and Jafar Panahi. Kiarostami started as a screenplay writer and director in 1970 with the short The Bread and Alley, and four years later he made his first feature, The Traveller. His films got international acclaim as of the 80’s with Where is the Friend’s Home? (1987), to which he took a semi-documentary approach. This approach was enhanced in Homework (1989, 19th Mostra) - which focuses on children’s views of the Iranian school system - and was perfected in Close Up (1990, 14th Mostra), whereby the director follows the trial of an extreme movie fanatic who pretended to be the director Mohsen Makhmalbaf. Kiarostami had an even greater acclaim with his following film, Through the Olive Trees (18th Mostra), which was nominated for the Palm D’Or at the Cannes Festival in 1994 and won the Critics’ Choice Award at the 18th Mostra. With such outstanding films to his credit, the director is master of a lean narrative line supported by a humanistic focus, which prompts the viewer to follow the course of time in a manner akin to real life through their identification with ordinary people, who are the very essence of his dramaturgy.
Kiarostami’s next project was the screenplay for The White Balloon (1995, 19th Mostra), directed by his assistant Jafar Panahi. He then revisited the classic Jean Vigo’s 1930 documentary on Nice and directed one of the episodes of À Propos de Nice – La Suite (1995, 19th Mostra). Two years later, Kiarostami took on a change of tone by writing and directing a deep reflection on the meaning of life, Taste of Cherry (21st Mostra, 1997), winner of the Palm D’Or at Cannes. In that same year, the French Festival granted him the Rossellini Award for the ensemble of his career, while UNESCO granted him the Fellini Medal.
Kiarostami’s next film, The Wind Will Carry Us (1999, 23rd Mostra) was screened at the Venice Festival and was awarded the special jury prize. Two years later, the director filmed outside Iran for the first time and experimented with digital cinema in ABC Africa (2001, 25th Mostra), a close and keen look at the spread of AIDS in Uganda. The female condition - an underexplored theme in Iranian cinema - is the main focus of Ten (2002, 26th Mostra), and revolves around everyday situations in the life of a young, professional and divorced mother. This film was also nominated for the Palm D’Or at Cannes. Kiarostami continues to delve into contemporary and urban themes and wrote the script for Crimson Gold (27th Mostra), also directed by Jafar Panahi. In 2004, the Cannes Festival screened Kiarostami’s two latest films: Five and 10 on Ten, both included in the 28th Mostra program together with a small retrospective of his works.
filmes em outras edições:
TEN, 2002
ABC AFRICA, 2001
O VENTO NOS LEVARÁ, 1999
THROUGH THE OLIVE TREES, 1994
LIFE AND NOTHING MORE... (AND LIFE GOES ON...), 1992
CLOSE-UP, 1990
HOMEWORK, 1989
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