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Undoubtedly one of the most acclaimed Iranian film directors of all time, the late auteur Abbas Kiarostami’s movies achieved recognition worldwide.

After directing several short films during Iranian cinema’s New Wave, Kiarostami started to garner acclaim outside his homeland in the late 1980s with Where Is the Friends Home?, one of three films alongside And Life Goes On and Through the Olive Trees that make up his acclaimed ‘Koker trilogy’.

His 1990 pseudo-documentary Close-Up was listed amongst the British Film Institute’s 50 Greatest Films of All Time and found fans in fellow directors Quentin Tarantino and Werner Herzog, while his 1997 minimalist drama Taste of Cherry was awarded a Palme d’Or.

His last two films, Certified Copy and Like Someone In Love, were the only of Kiarostami’s to be filmed outside his native Iran and too achieved widespread critical acclaim.