Abbas Kiarostami

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, “To Each His Own Cinema” brought together 33 of the ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

A documentary film about a boys school in Iran. The film shows numerous, funny and moving interviews of many different young pupils of this ...

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 ...

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 ...

Abbas Kiarostami shoots a documentary about the AIDS crisis in Uganda.

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 ...