Close-Up (Persian: کلوزآپ ، نمای نزدیک, Klūzāp, nemā-ye nazdīk) is a 1990 Iranian docufiction written, directed and edited by Abbas Kiarostami.

[1] The director received permission to film the historic trial; with their agreement, he featured the people involved in re-enacting certain events that had proceeded that.

The father, Mr. Ahankhah, starts to suspect him as an imposter trying to rob them, especially when he sees a magazine photograph showing Makhmalbaf as a younger man with darker hair.

[5] It also mentions The Cyclist, a 1987 sports drama film made by Mohsen Makhmalbaf three years prior to Kiarostami's Close-Up.

Kiarostami first heard about Sabzian in 1989 after reading about the incident in an article in the Iranian magazine Sorush by journalist Hassan Farazmand.

"[7] In 2010 Los Angeles Times critic Dennis Lim described the film as eloquent and direct and said that it provided "a window into the psyche of a complicated man and into the social and cultural reality of Iran.

It features Sabzian talking about his infatuation with cinema, his impersonation of Makhmalbaf, and how his life has changed since working with Kiarostami.

The film premiered at Turin's 14° Festival internazionale cinema giovani in November 1996, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize – Special Mention.

Marcus Söderlund's 2007 music video for Swedish duo The Tough Alliance's "A New Chance" pays homage to Kiarostami's film.

[11] In an interview for the Criterion edition of the 2019 film Rolling Thunder Revue, director Martin Scorsese cites Kiarostami as his main influence.