Abbas Kiarostami Movies

The only nuptial condition an inveterate chain smoker receives from his perfume-testing fiancee is to quit smoking. This poses a problem for the...

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...

Abbas Kiarostami is the most acclaimed Iranian film director whose films have won prizes all around the world. In this film he gives a rare and frank...

A gorgeous and smart film by Daniel Garcia and Rania Attieh, Almost, Brooklyn, gives us an old man doing just what audiences did, crossing the...

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

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

Ali Dehbashi, the editor-in-chief of Bukhara Magazine, is forced to vacate his rented office. While struggling with asthma and the pressure of...

Abbas Kiarostami about the making of "The Wind Will Carry Us"

Onstage interview with filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami and Richard Richard Peña

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.

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...

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

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

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 sense of order is the necessary basis of any good social organisation. To illustrate this axiom, Kiarostami presents a series of paired scenes in...

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

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...

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

Mohara Yuji's documentary A Week with Kiarostami, filmed on the set of The Wind Will Carry Us. A photographic diary, the film plunges us into the...

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.