Abbas Kiarostami

Iranian film director, screenwriter, photographer and poet (22 June 1940, Tehran — 4 July 2016, Paris, France). Abbas Kiarostami produced over thirty feature-length films, as well as many shorts and documentaries, and earned numerous prestigious accolades, including "Palme d'Or" from the Cannes Film Festival for his Ta'm e guilass in 1997 (tied with Shôhei Imamura's Unagi). In 2005, British Film Institute honored Kiarostami with BFI Fellowship. Name variations in different languages include Abbás Kiarostamí (Spanish), Abbás Kiarostamí (Czech) and his native Persian: عباس کیارستمی