Abbas Kiarostami Movies

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...

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

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 made...

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 his...

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

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent...

Complications arise in a director's attempt to film a scene in Life, and Nothing More... (1992).

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

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 her...

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under...

A visual social examination in the form of ten conversations between a driving woman and her various pick-ups and hitchhikers.

Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of...

Several people try to take advantage of a little girl's innocence to hustle money her mom gave to her to buy a goldfish with.

Pizza man Hussein is a daily witnesses to the unjust distribution of wealth in his native Iran. One day, he finds a purse filled with shockingly...

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...

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

Hassan Darabi, a troublesome, amoral 10-year-old boy in a small Iranian town wishes to see the Iran national football team play an important match in...

A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and...

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

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