Abbas Kiarostami, internationally celebrated Iranian filmmaker,was born on 22 June 1940 in Tehran, Iran. He showed a keen interest in drawing early on and, at age 18, entered a graphic-art contest and won. He studied at Tehran University's Faculty of Fine Arts. As a designer and illustrator, Kiarostami worked throughout the '60s in advertising, making commercials, designing posters, creating credit titles for films, and illustrating children's books. In 1969, he founded the cinema department of the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children & Young Adults (known as Kanoon) in Teheran where a number of the most famous Iranian films were produced. In his first film, The Bread...