Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Country: Iran
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Movement: Iranian New Wave
24 Frames is a 2017 Iranian experimental film directed by Abbas Kiarostami and completed shortly before his death in July 2016, making it his final feature. The film was presented posthumously in the 70th Anniversary Events section of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. The work is composed of 24 distinct “frames,” each filmed from a fixed camera position and typically depicting scenes of nature or the seashore. Movement within each frame is deliberately minimal, often focusing on one or two animals engaged in subtle or loosely defined interactions. The opening frame is based on Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s painting Hunters in the Snow, in which selected figures—such as animals or birds—are animated through added motion, bringing the static image to life. The remaining frames shift to real-world imagery, maintaining the fixed viewpoint and concentrating on quiet observations of nature and wildlife.
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