Abbas Kiarostami Movies

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

Finding himself in a house in the north of Iran by the Caspian Sea, the director picked up his handheld DV camera and began filming the seemingly...

U.S.-based film professor Jamsheed Akrami talks to Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami in an inpromptu video interview, which offers a frank and funny...

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

A thirty-nine minute sketch film for TASTE OF CHERRY that Abbas Kiarostani made with his son Bahman Kiarostami.

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

Abbas Kiarostami on his film Five Dedicated to Ozu.

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...

Through an interview with Kiarostami in the Aran Islands and interviews with film critics and scholars at Cannes, the director examines Kiarostami's...

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

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...

The story of four soldiers who on a Friday go to the city with their commander. But this Friday is different and brings many troubles for them which...

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

Various Iranian women watch Romeo and Juliet and cry.

A man, unable to hitch a ride back to his broken-down car with a new tire, rolls it back to his car while running.

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...

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

Mohara Yuji's documentary A Week with Kiarostami, filmed on the set of The Wind Will Carry Us. A photographic diary, the film plunges us into the...