Movies: Abbas Kiarostami

Through an interview with Kiarostami in the Aran Islands and interviews with film critics and scholars at Cannes, the director examines Kiarostami's themes and methods. The director also profiles Kiarostami as a poet and a photographer....

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

Viewing Kiarostami’s lesser-known great film, accompanied by his own interpretation, is like sitting in on a filmmaking masterclass. Invited by “Pig” director Mani Haghighi to go through The Report, the Iranian maestro details his working methods and...

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 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...

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....

Twenty years after The Traveler was made, Kiarostami's son filmed his father as he reunited with the film's child star, now in his 30s....

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 play: "A friend is jealous about her hair and cuts it when she is asleep." The girl rejects playing t...

"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...

A documentary about Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami first aired on the French television series Cinema de Notre Temps....

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

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...

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....

10 Days with Kiarostami...

A documentary featuring interviews with teachers and officials on the profession of teaching....

Relationships and multiple influences between two great directors of modern cinema....

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....

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

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