Abbas Kiarostami

Born in Tehran, Iran, in 1940, he directed many short films; his feature films include Close-up (1990), Through the Olive Trees (1994) and Taste of Cherry (1997), all of them screened at the retrospective of his work held by Bafici ‘06, Shirin (2008; Bafici ‘09) and Certified Copy (2010; Bafici ‘11).