Abbas Kiarostami Movies

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

A documentary about the most important modern Iranian poet and intellectual icon. Iranian poet Ahmad Shamlou talks about his poetry, the world of...

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

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...

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...

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