Abbas Kiarostami Movies

Returning from an errand to buy bread, a boy finds a menacing dog blocking his way through the alley he must go down to get home. Frightened by the...

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

Gheysar returns home to find that his young sister has committed suicide and his older brother Farman got killed. When he finds that Aghmangol...

Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh,...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

Farhad, a respected math teacher, is engaged to the mother of one of his pupils. But rather than embrace his new father figure, the angry young...

Kiarostami as we have never really known him before, despite the transformative power of his many movies. Filmmaker and close friend Samadian avoids...

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

Through an interview with Kiarostami in the Aran Islands and interviews with film critics and scholars at Cannes, the director examines Kiarostami's...

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.

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