Abbas Kiarostami. (Tehran, 1940) is one of the greatest filmmakers to appear in world cinema in the last thirty years. After a modest and patient apprenticeship, during which he made educational films about and for the children of his country, Iran, he shot his first feature film, Where is my friend's house? (1987), Close Up (1990), And Life Goes On (1992), Through the Olive Trees (1994). International recognition came to him with the Palme d'Or at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival for The Taste of Cherries. This does not prevent him from continuing to produce increasingly personal work, which includes feature films (The Wind Will Take Us, 1999), a documentary (ABC Africa, 2001), miniDV films (Ten, 2002; Five, 2004), museum installations, photographic exhibitions and poetry books.