Abbas Kiarostami

Made for the Venice Film Festival’s 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their ...

An old man and a young woman meet in Tokyo. She knows nothing about him, he thinks he knows her. He welcomes her into his home, she offers him ...

In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged English writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano.

A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow ...

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, “To Each His Own Cinema” brought together 33 of the ...

Persian Carpet is an omnibus film produced by Iran’s National Carpet Center and Farabi Cinema Foundation where 15 renowned Iranian ...

A train travels across Italy toward Rome. On board is a professor who daydreams a conversation with a love that never was, a family of Albanian ...

“10 on Ten” is a 2004 Iranian documentary film directed by Abbas Kiarostami. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at 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 visual social examination in the form of ten conversations between a driving woman and her various pick-ups and hitchhikers.

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

Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural Kurdish village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows ...

One shot, taken using a time-lapse technique, of a sunrise in an Iranian mountain landscape. A thin band of light shines across a starry sky, the ...

A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the ...

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

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

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.

When the actor in a scene for his film Life And Nothing More… has to quit, a film director casts another man for the part. However, complications ...

After the earthquake of Guilan, a film director and his son travel to the devastated area to search for the actors from the movie the director ...

This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the ...

Young male students at a local Iranian school are asked about their feelings on homework.

An 8-year-old boy must return his friend’s notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school.

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

“Equal parts narrative and instructional cautionary tale, Toothache emphasizes taking care of one’s teeth” (MoMA).

An old man with a hearing aid tires of listening to the noises of the town. But when he takes his aid out he can’t hear his grandchildren ...

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