At one point in CLOSE-UP, the main figure, Hossein Sabzian, says, “I am the child from the film THE TRAVELER who’s left behind.” Made in 1974, Abbas Kiarostami’s THE TRAVELER tells the story of a young boy who goes to great lengths to take a bus trip to see his favorite soccer team. Kiarostami has said that he considers the film to be his first authentic feature.
Five years after CLOSE-UP, Mahmoud Chokrollahi made this intimate portrait of the film’s principal figure, Hossein Sabzian, which consists of conversations and interviews with Sabzian and people who know him. “CLOSE-UP” LONG SHOT is a remarkable account of the effect Abbas Kiarostami’s film had o...
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, ...
