Abbas Kiarostami Movies

In this guided tour of a unique Persian carpet, a close-up of the delicate "spine" of a tree branches out into the discovery of a fantastical world.

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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 thirty-nine minute sketch film for TASTE OF CHERRY that Abbas Kiarostani made with his son Bahman Kiarostami.

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 coming to...

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

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

Leeches a film by bahman kiarostami

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

Eleven major film makers from Europe, America and Asia talk about Akira Kurosawa and discover surprising influences on their own work.

10 Days with Kiarostami

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

A short documentary about the making of Abbas Kiarostami's 'Shirin'.

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

The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets....