Abbas Kiarostami Movies

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...

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

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.

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

"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...

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

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...

10 Days with Kiarostami

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

Onstage interview with filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami and Richard Richard Peña

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...

Abbas Kiarostami is the most acclaimed Iranian film director whose films have won prizes all around the world. In this film he gives a rare and frank...

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

A documentary by Hamideh Sharif Rad about Abbas Kiarostami's "Through the Olive Trees" (1994).

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.

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

"A humorous slice of educational instruction on refurbishing and painting" (MoMA).

Abbas Kiarostami on his film Five Dedicated to Ozu.

An old man with a hearing aid tires of listening to the noises of the town. But when he takes his aid out he can't hear his grandchildren coming to...

“Nature, the inexhaustible resource of encounters worthy of speechless communication,” declares Abbas Kiarostami in Fergus Daly’s...