Abbas Kiarostami Movies

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...

An Iranian filmmaker, a female taxi driver and a class a about cinema.

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 sun...

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

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

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

Onstage interview with filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami and Richard Richard Peña

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

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...

An exploration of the psychological effects of war on a middle-class Iranian family who flee Teheran following a night air raid.

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...

Various Iranian women watch Romeo and Juliet and cry.

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

A veteran film critic explores the legacy of Cannes Film Festival regular Pierre Rissient.

This rarely screened early short made for The Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults documents the complete...

Mohara Yuji's documentary A Week with Kiarostami, filmed on the set of The Wind Will Carry Us. A photographic diary, the film plunges us into the...

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

Abbas Kiarostami is the most acclaimed Iranian film director whose films have won prizes all around the world. In this film he gives a rare and frank...