Abbas Kiarostami
Abbas Kiarostami (Persian: عباس کیارستمی [ʔæbˌbɒːs kijɒːɾostæˈmi] ; June 22, 1940 – July 4, 2016) was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer, and film producer. An active filmmaker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in the production of over forty... Read full bio →
Like Someone in Love
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 circumstances of their encounter.
Copie conforme
In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged English writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano.
10 on Ten
"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 and how he taped certain sequences in "Ten" in 2001.
Talaye sorkh
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 of his working-class attire, he's not allowed inside.
Five Dedicated to Ozu
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 waves, people walking by the sea, indistinct shapes on a wintry beach or noisy ducks.
Istgah-Matrouk
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.
ABC Africa
Abbas Kiarostami shoots a documentary about the AIDS crisis in Uganda.
Bid-o Bad
A boy breaks a window at his school and sets out to fix it on his own during a storm.
Bad ma ra khahad bord
Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural 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.
Ta'm e guilass
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 job, but initially he has little luck.
Safar
An exploration of the psychological effects of war on a middle-class Iranian family who flee Teheran following a night air raid.
Badkonake sefid
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.
Zire darakhatan zeyton
The movie focuses on one of the events in Zendegi Edame Darad (1992), and explores the relationship between the movie director, and the actors. The local actors play a couple who got married right after the earthquake. In reality, the actor is trying to persuade the actress that they should get married.
Zendegi va digar hich
Apres le terrible tremblement de terre qui secoua le nord de l'Iran en 1990, un pere et son fils partent a la recherche des deux jeunes heros du film "Ou est la maison de mon ami?".
Nema-ye Nazdik
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, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves.
Khane-ye doust kodjast?
An 8 year old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school.
Kelid
A young boy is locked into his apartment when his mother goes out and must care for his baby brother and cope with various domestic catastrophes while his grandmother and a neighbor try to locate his mother or the key to the apartment.
Avaliha
A concealed camera follows a group of first graders during their day at school.
Hamshahri
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.
Hamsarayan
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.
Be Tartib ya Bedoun-e Tartib
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 anarchic one. The film crew, however, finds it difficult to organise disorder.
Dandan Dard
Mohammed is a good boy. He does all of his homework. He does everything his parents ask. But there is one thing Mohammed does not do well: HE IS LAZY ABOUT BRUSHING HIS TEETH!
Ghazieh-e Shekl-e Aval, Ghazieh-e Shekl-e Dou Wom
First Case, Second Case is 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.
Rah Hal-e Yek
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.
Gozaresh
A tax collector is accused of taking bribes, and also has to deal with problems at home.
Bozorgdasht-e mo'Allem
A documentary featuring interviews with teachers and officials on the profession of teaching.
Az Oghat-e Faraghat-e Khod Chegouneh Estefadeh Konim?
"A humorous slice of educational instruction on refurbishing and painting" (MoMA).
Rangha
By showing a series of different-coloured objects, the film aims to familiarize very young children with the various colours, and ends with a shot of a blackboard, a symbol of learning.
Lebassi Baraye Arossi
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.
Man ham mitounam
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.
Dow Rahehal Baraye yek Massaleh
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.
Mossafer
A grade-school-age boy, neglected by his parents, lies, cheats, and steals to accumulate enough money to afford a bus ride to a large city and a ticket to see his favorite soccer team play.
Tadjrebeh
A boy works for a photographer and falls in love with an upper class girl.
Zang-e Tafrih
A young boy accidentaly kicks his football through a glass window ...