Abbas Kiarostami Movies

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...

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

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...

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

10 Days with Kiarostami

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

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

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

For 25 years, Samadian traveled with Kiarostami and recorded their journeys. He now turns that footage into a film in the spirit of Kiarostami's own...

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...

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...

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.

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

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.

Hossain Sabzian and some of his associates discuss his character, his life-long obsession with cinema and his attitude towards the film he starred...

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...

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...

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