Abbas Kiarostami Movies

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

A political allegory on four middle-class guys who pile into their car for a ski weekend. A brief stop at a picturesque vista leads to their chance...

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...

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...

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...

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

The hard daily life of a kid working in a photo shop while trying to get closer to the girl he likes.

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

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

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

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

Abbas Kiarostami takes his camera to south of Italy and shows us a beautiful and playful video of alleys and stairs there.

10 Days with Kiarostami

Onstage interview with filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami and Richard Richard Peña

The only nuptial condition an inveterate chain smoker receives from his perfume-testing fiancee is to quit smoking. This poses a problem for the...

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.

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...

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

A documentary by Hamideh Sharif Rad about Abbas Kiarostami's "Through the Olive Trees" (1994).