Abbas Kiarostami Movies

A documentary featuring interviews with teachers and officials on the profession of teaching and what it means to them.

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...

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

On a pilgrimage to Mashad from Tehran, a couple's transportation breaks down, far from any major town. The husband, a photographer, seeks help at a...

The story of four soldiers who on a Friday go to the city with their commander. But this Friday is different and brings many troubles for them which...

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

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.

This interview-based documentary is made on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Aydin Aghdashloo, Mohammad Ehsaei and Abbas Kiarostami, and deals...

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

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...

A short documentary about the making of Abbas Kiarostami's 'Shirin'.

You Are Not Alone weaves together fragments of Taste of Cherry, Project, and footage from Abbas Kiarostami’s gravesite, reflecting on memory,...

This rarely screened early short made for The Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults documents the complete...

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...

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.

Static shots of his photos alternate with footage of director Abbas Kiarostami's car winding through mountain roads, as the Iranian filmmaker muses...