Abbas Kiarostami Movies

A collection of 24 short four-and-a-half minutes films inspired by still images, including paintings and photographs. An experimental project made by...

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

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

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

Acclaimed Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami, delivers a film workshop in Bogotá, the filmmakers conclude by proposing a short film in 10...

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 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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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.

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

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

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...