Abbas Kiarostami Movies

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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...

"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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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