Abbas Kiarostami Movies

A documentary film about a boys school in Iran. The film shows numerous, funny and moving interviews of many different young pupils of this school...

Returning from an errand to buy bread, a boy finds a menacing dog blocking his way through the alley he must go down to get home. Frightened by the...

Finding himself in a house in the north of Iran by the Caspian Sea, the director picked up his handheld DV camera and began filming the seemingly...

A documentary by Hamideh Sharif Rad about Abbas Kiarostami's "Through the Olive Trees" (1994).

A documentary about the most important modern Iranian poet and intellectual icon. Iranian poet Ahmad Shamlou talks about his poetry, the world of...

A collection of 24 short four-and-a-half minutes films inspired by still images, including paintings and photographs. An experimental project made by...

Gheysar returns home to find that his young sister has committed suicide and his older brother Farman got killed. When he finds that Aghmangol...

A look at the formation of the career of Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami.

Static shots of his photos alternate with footage of director Abbas Kiarostami's car winding through mountain roads, as the Iranian filmmaker muses...

A sense of order is the necessary basis of any good social organisation. To illustrate this axiom, Kiarostami presents a series of paired scenes in...

10 Days with Kiarostami

During breaktime, Dara and Nader have a fierce argument about a torn exercise book that the former has given back to the latter. There are two...

Through an interview with Kiarostami in the Aran Islands and interviews with film critics and scholars at Cannes, the director examines Kiarostami's...

A man, unable to hitch a ride back to his broken-down car with a new tire, rolls it back to his car while running.

A tax collector is accused of taking bribes, and also has to deal with problems at home, including a suicide attempt by his wife.

Abbas Kiarostami shoots a documentary about the AIDS crisis in Uganda.

On July 1983, lawmakers in Teheran decided to close off a section of the capital to regular traffic. Only drivers with special permits could cross...

Anthology of short films about the French city of Nice, by various directors. A homage to Jean Vigo and his "À propos de Nice" from 1930.

A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Abbas Kiarostami’s "Certified Copy" (2010).

Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh,...