Abbas Kiarostami Movies

By showing a series of different-coloured objects, the film aims to familiarize very young children with the various colours, and ends with a shot of...

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 featuring interviews with teachers and officials on the profession of teaching.

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...

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 young man's drive to avenge for his sister and brother.

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...

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...

Filmmaker José Luis Guerin documents his experience during a year of traveling as a guest of film festivals to present his previous film. What...

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

This documentary is featured on the two-disc Chaplin Collection DVD for "The Kid" (1921), released in 2004.

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

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.

Kiarostami as we have never really known him before, despite the transformative power of his many movies. Filmmaker and close friend Samadian avoids...

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...

“Nature, the inexhaustible resource of encounters worthy of speechless communication,” declares Abbas Kiarostami in Fergus Daly’s...

A short documentary from footage of the making of Kiarostami's 2017 film 24 FRAMES.

Viewing Kiarostami’s lesser-known great film, accompanied by his own interpretation, is like sitting in on a filmmaking masterclass. Invited by...

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

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