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The film revolves around the lives of four strangers, who arrive from Tehran for a short stay at Siah Dareh, a village in Iranian Kurdistan. Ostensibly, the strangers are looking for treasure. But, as in all Kiarostami's work, the resolution to their quest lies as much with the viewer as it does with the film. "It's a fact that films without a story aren't very popular with audiences, yet a story also requires gaps, empty spaces like in a crossword puzzle, voids that it is up to the audience to fill. Or, like a private detective in a thriller, to discover. I believe in a type of cinema that gives greater possibilities and time to its audience. A half-created cinema, an unfinished cinema that attains completion through the creative spirit of the audience, so resulting in hundreds of films." Abbas Kiarostami
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Biography
He was born in 1940, in Tehran. Between 1960 and 1968 he worked as a graphic artist, doing commercials and credit sequences for feature films. He studied fine arts at the university while earning a living as a clerk at a police station. In 1969, he and a friend founded the film department at the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults. Since 1970, he has made many short films and ten feature films.
Filmography
(English titles)
1974 Traveller
1977 The Report
1984 First-Graders
1987 Where is My Friend's Home?
1989 Homework
1990 Close-Up
1992 And Life Goes On...
1994 Through the Olive Trees
1997 Taste of Cherry
1999 The Wind Will Carry Us
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