Abbas Kiarostami Movies

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

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 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...

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

When the actor in a scene for his film Life And Nothing More… has to quit, a film director casts another man for the part. However,...

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...

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

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...

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...

Otis endures a bad night out on the town while trying to shop for cleaning supplies.

A train travels across Italy toward Rome. Onboard is a professor who daydreams a conversation with a love that never was; a family of Albanian...

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

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...

A veteran film critic explores the legacy of Cannes Film Festival regular Pierre Rissient.

Izawa is a Japanese manufacturing workshop he has relationship with the workshop owner's daughter. At the request of his fiance he is forced to...

Anthology of short films about the French city of Nice, by various directors. A homage to Jean Vigo and his "À propos de Nice" from 1930.

A look at the formation of the career of Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami.

Filmmaker José Luis Guerin documents his experience during a year of traveling as a guest of film festivals to present his previous film. What...