Abbas Kiarostami takes his camera to the south of Italy & captures beautiful pictures of alleys and stairs, which he presents the spectator in a playful video.
Abbas Kiarostami, 22 June 1940 – 4 July 2016 was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, photographer and film producer. An active film-maker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in over forty films, including shorts and documentaries. He attained critical acclaim for directing the Koker trilogy (1987–94), Close-Up (1990), Taste of Cherry (1997) – which was awarded the Palme d‘Or at the Cannes Film Festival that year – and The Wind Will Carry Us (1999). In his later works, Certified Copy (2010) and Like Someone in Love (2012), he filmed for the first time outside Iran: in Italy and Japan, respectively.
