Tiburon International Film Festival

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Bahman Kiarostami was born in Tehran in 1978 and has worked with his father Abbas on several films, for instance as editor of Ten (2002). He started his work as an assistant director in 1996 and made his first film, Morteza Momayez: Father of Iranian Contemporary Graphic Design, in the same year. Shown at international film festivals in Iran and abroad, his subsequent films have focused primarily on art and music, often touching on religious themes as well.

In 1998, Bahman Kiarostami made Tarh (The Project), the visual screenplay for the film Taste of Cherry directed by his father Abbas, In 2001, Kiarostami made the documentaries Tabaki, an insightful portrait of professional mourners in Iran, and Noor (The Light), which looks at the Baroque and Gregorian music that is performed in Armenian churches of Iran. In 2002, Kiarostami made I Saw Shoosh, a film based on a poem by Mehdi Akhavan-Sales, and Leech, a film that explores a father/son relationship. In 2004, Kiarostami made Pilgrimage. That same year he also made Kamancheh, a film on Iranian musicians who devote themselves to the title instrument, and Two Bows, an in-depth look at the lives and methods of two Iranian musicians.

Filmography:

Infidels (2004)
Two Bows (2004)
Pilgrimage (2004)
Shoosh (2002)
Leech (2002)
Tabaki (2001)
Noor (2001)
The Project (1998)
Journey to the Land of the Traveller (1997)
Morteza Momayez: Father of Iranian Contemporary Graphic Design (1996)

Films

Infidels