Born in Iran, Ali Abbasi gave up his studies at Tehran Polytechnic University in 2002 and traveled to Europe, where he finally settled in Stockholm, Sweden, to study architecture. In 2007, he graduated and subsequently enrolled at the National Film School of Denmark, where he studied directing. His first feature, Shelley, premiered in the Panorama section of the 2016 Berlinale. His new film Border is now in theaters.
Biography via Criterion.
The List
1
Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom
UnavailablePier Paolo Pasolini
1976
116 min
2
Great Expectations
David Lean
1946
118 min
3
Andrei Rublev
Andrei Tarkovsky
1966
183 min
4
Hiroshima mon amour
Alain Resnais
1959
92 min
5
La strada
Federico Fellini
1954
115 min
6
Naked Lunch
UnavailableDavid Cronenberg
1991
115 min
7tie
Viridiana
Luis Buñuel
1961
90 min
7tie
Belle de jour
Luis Buñuel
1967
100 min
8
Close-up
Abbas Kiarostami
1990
98 min
9
Mulholland Dr.
UnavailableDavid Lynch
2001
147 min
10
The Color of Pomegranates
Sergei Parajanov
1969
80 min