Abbas Kiarostami Movies

A boy on his way home from school kicks a ball out of a street where some children are playing. He's chased and forced to take a new way home.

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...

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.

After returning from an errand to get bread, a young boy encounters a dog that frightens him making the journey to get home more difficult than he...

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under...

Farhad, a respected math teacher, is engaged to the mother of one of his pupils. But rather than embrace his new father figure, the angry young...

Hossain Sabzian and some of his associates discuss his character, his life-long obsession with cinema and his attitude towards the film he starred...

Relationships and multiple influences between two great directors of modern cinema.

A documentary dealing with the life of Ahmadreza Ahmadi, an Iranian Poet.

A documentary featuring interviews with teachers and officials on the profession of teaching and what it means to them.

A 9-minute short directed by Abbas Kiarostami, produced as part of a workshop in Cuba.

Calamity by four-year old might be another title for this tense, humorous drama. In the story, a four year old boy (Mohammed Aladpoush) is left at...

Two children watching animals move in an animated film try to imitate their gestures — until they see real birds fly and a real airplane take...

A tax collector is accused of taking bribes, and also has to deal with problems at home.

U.S.-based film professor Jamsheed Akrami talks to Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami in an inpromptu video interview, which offers a frank and funny...

This interview-based documentary is made on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Aydin Aghdashloo, Mohammad Ehsaei and Abbas Kiarostami, and deals...

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...

Onstage interview with filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami and Richard Richard Peña

Several people try to take advantage of a little girl's innocence to hustle money her mom gave to her to buy a goldfish with.