Movies: Abbas Kiarostami

Hossain Sabzian and some of his associates discuss his character, his life-long obsession with cinema and his attitude towards the film he starred in, "Close-Up" (1990)....

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

A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Abbas Kiarostami’s "Certified Copy" (2010)....

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....

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 interview about his work, and journeys out of Tehran to meet Babk Ahmadpoor the now grown up star of...

U.S.-based film professor Jamsheed Akrami talks to Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami in an inpromptu video interview, which offers a frank and funny view of Kiarostami rarely seen before....

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 bridge. “I’ve lived in Manhattan all my life, and I’ve never been to Brooklyn. Take me there,” says the old...

Young male students at a local Iranian school are asked about their feelings on homework....

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 Tehran. In order to achieve that, he scams his friends and neighbors....

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 could’ve imagined....

Calamity by four-year old might be another title for this tense, humorous drama. In the story, a four year old boy (Mohammed Aladpoush) is left at home with his baby brother while his mother goes out shopping. She has told him to give the baby his bo...

This rarely screened early short made for The Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults documents the complete restauration of the Jahan-nama Palace, one of the Shah's traditional residencies....

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 comes up, the dawn light glows....

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

An Iranian filmmaker, a female taxi driver and a class a about cinema....

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...

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....

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 documentary by Hamideh Sharif Rad about Abbas Kiarostami's "Through the Olive Trees" (1994)....

Leeches a film by bahman kiarostami...