In this 2009 video interview, shot in Marrakech while Abbas Kiarostami was president of the Marrakech Film Festival jury, the director discusses CLOSE-UP and the impact it had on his career.
Iranian film professor Jamsheed Akrami made this portrait of Abbas Kiarostami over the course of two days at the 2001 Galway Film Festival in Ireland. Shown first on a ferry and then on a nature photography walk, an unusually candid Kiarostami reflects on images, nature, water, film composition, ...