Movies: Abbas Kiarostami

A short documentary from footage of the making of Kiarostami's 2017 film 24 FRAMES....

Static shots of his photos alternate with footage of director Abbas Kiarostami's car winding through mountain roads, as the Iranian filmmaker muses in voice-over on the significance of the journey and on the path of his work and Persian literature as...

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 summoned by their superintendent for questions of discipline. The man is not severe, but clever and fai...

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....

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....

Kiarostami as we have never really known him before, despite the transformative power of his many movies. Filmmaker and close friend Samadian avoids the talking heads of so many artistic memoirs to offer more candid clips of Kiarostami the man: lover...

"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 fil...

This interview-based documentary is made on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Aydin Aghdashloo, Mohammad Ehsaei and Abbas Kiarostami, and deals with "aging" from the point of view of these three prominent friends and artists....

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....

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....

“Nature, the inexhaustible resource of encounters worthy of speechless communication,” declares Abbas Kiarostami in Fergus Daly’s beautiful journey. How can cinema free itself of its anthropocentric and industrial determinations? Each of the films pr...

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. One is that Dara wants to get his own back, an...

A thirty-nine minute sketch film for TASTE OF CHERRY that Abbas Kiarostani made with his son Bahman Kiarostami....

Onstage interview with filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami and Richard Richard Peña...

Acclaimed Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami, delivers a film workshop in Bogotá, the filmmakers conclude by proposing a short film in 10 days. Diego, one of the directors of the workshop, as scouting, meets a young shy librarian named Vida , who...

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

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....

By showing a series of different-coloured objects, the film aims to familiarize very young children with the various colours....

Abbas Kiarostami takes his camera to south of Italy and shows us a beautiful and playful video of alleys and stairs there....

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