Abbas Kiarostami

24 Frames (2018)

A collection of 24 short four-and-a-half minutes films inspired by still images, including paintings and photographs. An experimental project made by filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami in the last three years of his life. ...

Passenger (2016)

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

Cabeza de gallo (2016)

After a fight, a woman patiently awaits for her husband while the sadness and loneliness tear apart her heart. ...

Venice 70: Future Reloaded (2013)

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

The Girl in the Lemon Factory (2013)

Like Someone in Love (2012)

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 her body. But the web that is woven between them in the space of twenty four hours bears no relation to the circu ...

Meeting Leila (2012)

The only nuptial condition an inveterate chain smoker receives from his perfume-testing fiancee is to quit smoking. This poses a problem for the advertising agency ideas man for whom smoking is all part of the creative process. ...

No (2010)

A little girl with beautiful hair. She loves movies and wants to become an actress. She is being told about the plot of a movie that she is going to play: "A friend is jealous about her hair and cuts it when she is asleep." The girl rejects playing the rol ...

Certified Copy (2010)

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

Shirin (2009)

A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the text -- ...

Seagull Eggs (2008)

We can see rocks on a sea shore, with cavities, in one of them, the highest, there are 3 seagull eggs, and the waves slam that rock. ...

To Each His Own Cinema (2007)

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state ...

Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema (2007)

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

Persian Carpet (2007)

Persian Carpet is an omnibus film produced by Iran's National Carpet Center and Farabi Cinema Foundation where 15 renowned Iranian directors contributed films on the subject of Persian carpet. Carpets are the reflection of the cultural and historical ident ...

Víctor Erice – Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondences (2007)

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

Almost Brooklyn (2007)

A gorgeous and smart film by Daniel Garcia and Rania Attieh, Almost, Brooklyn, gives us an old man doing just what audiences did, crossing the bridge. "I've lived in Manhattan all my life, and I've never been to Brooklyn. Take me there," says the old man, ...

Roads of Kiarostami (2006)

Static shots of his photos alternate with footage of director Abbas Kiarostami's car winding through mountain roads, as the Iranian filmmaker muses in voice-over on the significance of the journey and on the path of his work and Persian literature as a who ...

Rug (2006)

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. ...

Men at Work (2006)

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 discovery of a prominent rock formation it seems would be oh so easy to tip over, but... ...

Tickets (2005)

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 refugees who switch trains and steal a ticket, three brash Scottish soccer fans en route to a match, and a compl ...

Around Five (2005)

Abbas Kiarostami on his film Five Dedicated to Ozu. ...

10 on Ten (2004)

"10 on Ten" is a 2004 Iranian documentary film directed by Abbas Kiarostami. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. Looking to his own art for inspiration, Abbas Kiarostami reflects on his techniques of filming a ...

Five Dedicated to Ozu (2003)

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 anodyne events happening on the 500 metres of beach in front of his house—a piece of wood toyed with by the ...

Crimson Gold (2003)

Pizza man Hussein is a daily witnesses to the unjust distribution of wealth in his native Iran. One day, he finds a purse filled with shockingly expensive receipts from an upscale jewelry store. He attempts to bring the purse back to the store, but because ...

Willow and Wind (2003)

A boy breaks a window at his school and sets out to fix it on his own during a storm. ...

Ten (2002)

A visual social examination in the form of ten conversations between a driving woman and her various pick-ups and hitchhikers. ...

Deserted Station (2002)

On a pilgrimage to Mashad from Tehran, a couple's transportation breaks down, far from any major town. The husband, a photographer, seeks help at a nearby village and encounters a teacher who offers to help. Whilst the husband and teacher go off to find a ...

ABC Africa (2001)

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

The Key (2000)

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 home with his baby brother while his mother goes out shopping. She has told him to give the baby his bottle w ...

The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)

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 his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result. ...

The Birth of Light (1997)

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 comes up, the dawn light glows. ...

Taste of Cherry (1997)

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 seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take on the j ...

Safar (1996)

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

Lumière & Company (1995)

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) ...

Concerning Nice (1995)

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. ...

Through the Olive Trees (1995)

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 arise since the man and the woman who was cast for the scene know each other. ...

The White Balloon (1995)

Several people try to take advantage of a little girl's innocence to hustle money her mom gave to her to buy a goldfish with. ...

Life, and Nothing More… (1992)

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 made there a few years previously. In their search, they see how people who have lost everything in the earthquak ...

Close-Up (1990)

This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, id ...

Homework (1989)

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

Where Is The Friend's House? (1987)

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

First Graders (1984)

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 summoned by their superintendent for questions of discipline. The man is not severe, but clever and fair. He ...

Fellow Citizen (1983)

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 the road blocks set up at various intersections leading to the restricted zone. ...

The Chorus (1982)

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 see him. ...

Orderly or Disorderly? (1981)

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 this educational short film in which the same action is first shown in an organised way and then in an anarc ...

Toothache (1980)

A eductional short film based on a child named Mohammed-Reza and his poor dental habits. A majority of the second half film discusses many questions on dental hygiene. ...

First Case, Second Case (1979)

A documentary about a teacher who sends a group of pupils out of the classroom when one of them does not own up to talking behind the master's back. ...

Solution No. 1 (1978)

A man, unable to hitch a ride back to his broken-down car with a new tire, rolls it back to his car while running. ...

The Report (1977)

A tax collector is accused of taking bribes, and also has to deal with problems at home. ...

Jahan-Nama Palace (1977)

This rarely screened early short made for The Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults documents the complete restauration of the Jahan-nama Palace, one of the Shah's traditional residencies. ...

How to Make Use of Leisure Time: Painting (1977)

"A humorous slice of educational instruction on refurbishing and painting" (MoMA). ...

Tribute to the Teachers (1977)

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

The Colours (1976)

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

A Wedding Suit (1976)

A woman orders a suit from a tailor for her young son to wear to her sister's wedding. The tailor's apprentice, together with two other teenage boys who work in the same building, devise a plan to try on the suit at night to see what it feels like. ...

Two Solutions to One Problem (1975)

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 possible outcomes, which the film shows one after the other. One is that Dara wants to get his own back, and the ...

So Can I (1975)

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 off. ...

The Traveler (1974)

Hassan Darabi, a troublesome, amoral 10-year-old boy in a small Iranian town wishes to see the Iran national football team play an important match in Tehran. In order to achieve that, he scams his friends and neighbors. ...

The Experience (1973)

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

Breaktime (1972)

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. ...

The Bread and Alley (1970)

After returning from an errand to get bread, a young boy encounters a dog that frightens him making the journey to get home more difficult than he could've imagined. ...

Qeysar (1969)

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

Leech (2021)

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The Mirror of Possible Worlds: Kiarostami on Aran (2020)

"Nature, the inexhaustible resource of encounters worthy of speechless communication," declares Abbas Kiarostami in Fergus Daly's beautiful journey. How can cinema free itself of its anthropocentric and industrial determinations? Each of the films presente ...

Print (2019)

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

76 Minutes and 15 seconds with Abbas Kiarostami (2016)

Kiarostami as we have never really known him before, despite the transformative power of his many movies. Filmmaker and close friend Samadian avoids the talking heads of so many artistic memoirs to offer more candid clips of Kiarostami the man: lover of po ...

Vida (2014)

Acclaimed Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami, delivers a film workshop in Bogotá, the filmmakers conclude by proposing a short film in 10 days. Diego, one of the directors of the workshop, as scouting, meets a young shy librarian named Vida , who drea ...

The Poetry of Cinema: Abbas Kiarostami in Conversation with Richard Peña (2014)

Onstage interview with filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami and Richard Richard Peña ...

What Is Cinema? (2013)

Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh, David Lynch, and Jonas Mekas, Oscar-winning filmmaker Chuck Workman shows what these filmmakers and others d ...

Abbas Kiarostami: A Report (2013)

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

Making of 'Like Someone in Love' (2012)

Documentary with behind-the-scenes footage on the set of Abbas Kiarostomi's 2012 film "Like Someone in Love" with narration by the director. ...

Kurosawa's Way (2011)

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

Guest (2011)

Filmmaker José Luis Guerin documents his experience during a year of traveling as a guest of film festivals to present his previous film. What emerges is a wonderfully humane and sincere portrayal of the people that he meets when he goes off the beaten tr ...

Sodankylä Forever (2010)

The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets. Founded by Aki and Mika Kaurismäki along with Anssi Mänttäri and Peter von Bagh in 1985, the festival has playe ...

Let's See Copia Conforme (2010)

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

In Praise of the Seventy Years Old (2010)

This interview-based documentary is made on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Aydin Aghdashloo, Mohammad Ehsaei and Abbas Kiarostami, and deals with "aging" from the point of view of these three prominent friends and artists. ...

Taste of Shirin (2008)

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

Víctor Erice – Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondences (2007)

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

Roads of Kiarostami (2006)

Static shots of his photos alternate with footage of director Abbas Kiarostami's car winding through mountain roads, as the Iranian filmmaker muses in voice-over on the significance of the journey and on the path of his work and Persian literature as a who ...

10 Days with Kiarostami (2005)

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On the Road with Kiarostami (2005)

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 interview about his work, and journeys out of Tehran to meet Babk Ahmadpoor the now grown up star of his f ...

Around Five (2005)

Abbas Kiarostami on his film Five Dedicated to Ozu. ...

A Good Time for Tragedy (2005)

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

TropiAbbas (2005)

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

10 on Ten (2004)

"10 on Ten" is a 2004 Iranian documentary film directed by Abbas Kiarostami. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. Looking to his own art for inspiration, Abbas Kiarostami reflects on his techniques of filming a ...

Journey to the Land of the Traveler (2004)

Twenty years after The Traveler was made, Kiarostami's son filmed his father as he reunited with the film's child star, now in his 30s. ...

A Walk with Kiarostami (2003)

U.S.-based film professor Jamsheed Akrami talks to Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami in an inpromptu video interview, which offers a frank and funny view of Kiarostami rarely seen before. ...

Chaplin Today: The Kid (2003)

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

Abbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living (2003)

Through an interview with Kiarostami in the Aran Islands and interviews with film critics and scholars at Cannes, the director examines Kiarostami's themes and methods. The director also profiles Kiarostami as a poet and a photographer. ...

Abbas Kiarostami: Leçon de cinéma (2002)

Abbas Kiarostami about the making of "The Wind Will Carry Us" ...

ABC Africa (2001)

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

Kiarostami in Close up (2000)

A documentary that focuses on Abbas Kiarostami's cinematic philosophy talking to himself and other figures, and also seeks the opinion about his works both inside and outside his homeland. ...

A Week With Kiarostami (1999)

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 beating heart of a shoot whose story plays out to the rhythm of the relationships between actors and local peo ...

Ahmad Shamlou: Master Poet of Liberty (1999)

A documentary about the most important modern Iranian poet and intellectual icon. Iranian poet Ahmad Shamlou talks about his poetry, the world of poetry, and his life. Filmed over a two year period from 1996 to 1998. ...

Project (1997)

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

Sohanak (1997)

Close-Up Long Shot (1996)

Hossain Sabzian and some of his associates discuss his character, his life-long obsession with cinema and his attitude towards the film he starred in, "Close-Up" (1990). ...

Through the Olive Trees (1995)

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 arise since the man and the woman who was cast for the scene know each other. ...

Behind the Scenes of 'Under the Olive Trees' (1994)

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

Abbas Kiarostami: Truths and Dreams (1994)

A documentary about Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami first aired on the French television series Cinema de Notre Temps. ...

Close-Up (1990)

This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, id ...

Homework (1989)

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