Abbas Kiarostami

A collection of 24 short four-and-a-half minutes films inspired by still images, including paintings and photographs. An experimental project ...

An old man and a young woman meet in Tokyo. She knows nothing about him, he thinks he knows her. He welcomes her into his home, she offers him ...

In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged English writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano.

A train travels across Italy toward Rome. On board is a professor who daydreams a conversation with a love that never was, a family of Albanian ...

Finding himself in a house in the north of Iran by the Caspian Sea, the director picked up his handheld DV camera and began filming the seemingly ...

Abbas Kiarostami shoots a documentary about the AIDS crisis in Uganda.

Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural Kurdish village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows ...

A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the ...

Complications arise in a director’s attempt to film a scene in Life, and Nothing more… (1992).

After the earthquake of Guilan, a film director and his son travel to the devastated area to search for the actors from the movie the director ...

This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the ...

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

An 8 year old boy must return his friend’s notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school.

A documentary film about a boys school in Iran. The film shows numerous, funny and moving interviews of many different young pupils of this ...

A tax collector is accused of taking bribes, and also has to deal with problems at home, including a suicide attempt by his wife.