Abbas Kiarostami Movies

Eleven major film makers from Europe, America and Asia talk about Akira Kurosawa and discover surprising influences on their own work.

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

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

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

A documentary that focuses on Abbas Kiarostami's cinematic philosophy talking to himself and other figures, and also seeks the opinion about his...

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...

A boy breaks a window at his school and sets out to fix it on his own during a storm.

A young man's drive to avenge for his sister and brother.

The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets....

Filmmaker José Luis Guerin documents his experience during a year of traveling as a guest of film festivals to present his previous film. What...

A look at the formation of the career of Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami.

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...

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...

A veteran film critic explores the legacy of Cannes Film Festival regular Pierre Rissient.

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...

Farhad, a respected math teacher, is engaged to the mother of one of his pupils. But rather than embrace his new father figure, the angry young...

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.

Returning from an errand to buy bread, a boy finds a menacing dog blocking his way through the alley he must go down to get home. Frightened by the...

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

Various Iranian women watch Romeo and Juliet and cry.