Question: What nationality is the director of film Close-Up (1990 Film)?

Knowledge 1: Close-Up (1990 film)
Close-Up ("Klūzāp, nemā-ye nazdīk") is a 1990 Iranian docufiction written, directed and edited by Abbas Kiarostami.The film tells the story of the real-life trial of a man who impersonated film-maker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, conning a family into believing they would star in his new film.It features the people involved, acting as themselves.A film about human identity, it helped to increase recognition of Kiarostami in the West.Many critics consider "Close-Up" a masterpiece of world cinema; in the 2012 "Sight & Sound" poll, it was voted by critics onto "The Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time" list. [SEP] Knowledge 2: Abbas Kiarostami
Abbas Kiarostami (22 June 1940 – 4 July 2016) was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer, and film producer.An active film-maker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in the production of over forty films, including shorts and documentaries.Kiarostami attained critical acclaim for directing the "Koker" trilogy (1987–1994), "Close-Up" (1990), "The Wind Will Carry Us" (1999), and "Taste of Cherry" (1997), which was awarded the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival that year.In later works, "Certified Copy" (2010) and"Like Someone in Love" (2012), he filmed for the first time outside Iran: in Italy and Japan, respectively.His films "Where Is the Friend’s Home?Close-Up", and "The Wind Will Carry Us" were ranked among the 100 best foreign films in a 2018 critics' poll by BBC Culture."Close-Up" was also ranked one of the 50 greatest movies of all time in the famous decennial "Sight & Sound" poll conducted in 2012.Kiarostami had worked extensively as a screenwriter, film editor, art director and producer and had designed credit titles and publicity material.He was also a poet, photographer, painter, illustrator, and graphic designer.He was part of a generation of filmmakers in the Iranian New Wave, a Persian cinema movement that started in the late 1960s and includes pioneering directors such as Bahram Beyzai, Nasser Taghvai, Ali Hatami, Masoud Kimiai, Dariush Mehrjui, Sohrab Shahid-Saless and Parviz Kimiavi.These filmmakers share many common techniques including the use of poetic dialogue and allegorical storytelling dealing with political and philosophical issues.Kiarostami had a reputation for using child protagonists, for documentary-style narrative films, for stories that take place in rural villages, and for conversations that unfold inside cars, using stationary mounted cameras.He is also known for his use of Persian poetry in the dialogue, titles, and themes of his films.Kiarostami's films contain a notable degree of ambiguity, an unusual mixture of simplicity and complexity, and often a mix of fictional and documentary elements.The concepts of change and continuity, in addition to the themes of life and death, play a major role in Kiarostami's works.
Knowledge 1: Close-Up (1990 film)
Close-Up ("Klūzāp, nemā-ye nazdīk") is a 1990 Iranian docufiction written, directed and edited by Abbas Kiarostami.The film tells the story of the real-life trial of a man who impersonated film-maker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, conning a family into believing they would star in his new film.It features the people involved, acting as themselves.A film about human identity, it helped to increase recognition of Kiarostami in the West.Many critics consider "Close-Up" a masterpiece of world cinema; in the 2012 "Sight & Sound" poll, it was voted by critics onto "The Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time" list. [SEP] Knowledge 2: Spiders on a Web
Spiders on a Web is a 1900 British short silent documentary film, directed by George Albert Smith, featuring a single shot close- up of two spiders trapped in an enclosure( not on a web as indicated in the title).The film is, according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline," less formally ambitious," than the director's," groundbreaking multiple close- up study" Grandma's Reading Glass( 1900)," made the same year, but is nonetheless," one of the earliest British examples of close- up natural history photography, predating Percy Smith's insect studies by a decade."
Knowledge 1: Spiders on a Web
Spiders on a Web is a 1900 British short silent documentary film, directed by George Albert Smith, featuring a single shot close- up of two spiders trapped in an enclosure( not on a web as indicated in the title).The film is, according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline," less formally ambitious," than the director's," groundbreaking multiple close- up study" Grandma's Reading Glass( 1900)," made the same year, but is nonetheless," one of the earliest British examples of close- up natural history photography, predating Percy Smith's insect studies by a decade." [SEP] Knowledge 2: John Farrell (businessman)
John Farrell is the director of YouTube in Latin America.

Answer: Iran