Movies

Onstage interview with filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami and Richard Richard Peña

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

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...

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

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

During breaktime, Dara and Nader have a fierce argument about a torn exercise book that the former has given back to the latter. There are two...

On July 1983, lawmakers in Teheran decided to close off a section of the capital to regular traffic. Only drivers with special permits could cross...

A short documentary from footage of the making of Kiarostami's 2017 film 24 FRAMES.

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.

Two children watching animals move in an animated film try to imitate their gestures — until they see real birds fly and a real airplane take...

A documentary dealing with the life of Ahmadreza Ahmadi, an Iranian Poet.

Ali Dehbashi, the editor-in-chief of Bukhara Magazine, is forced to vacate his rented office. While struggling with asthma and the pressure of...

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.

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...

A documentary featuring interviews with teachers and officials on the profession of teaching and what it means to them.

The only nuptial condition an inveterate chain smoker receives from his perfume-testing fiancee is to quit smoking. This poses a problem for the...

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

Static shots of his photos alternate with footage of director Abbas Kiarostami's car winding through mountain roads, as the Iranian filmmaker muses...

This interview-based documentary is made on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Aydin Aghdashloo, Mohammad Ehsaei and Abbas Kiarostami, and deals...

A short documentary about the making of Abbas Kiarostami's 'Shirin'.