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- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsReza HashemiMehdi ShahravanfarA child carrying a bread is going home but in the alley on his way to home, there is a frightening dog and he doesn't seem to pass it alone.Short film - Director/Writer
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsSiroos HassanpoorA boy on his way home from school kicks a ball out of street where some children are playing. He's cased and forced to take a new way home.Short film - Director/Writer
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsHossein YarmohammadiAndre GovalovishParviz NaderiThe hard daily life of a kid working in a photo shop while trying to get closer to the girl he likes.Feature film - Director/Writer
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsMasud ZandbeglehHassan DarabiMostafa TariA grade-school-age boy, neglected by his parents, lies, cheats, and steals to accumulate enough money to afford a bus ride to a large city and a ticket to see his favorite soccer team play.Feature film - Director/Writer
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsSaeidHamidWhen one boy tears another boy's book, it is up to the two of them to decide how to handle it.Short film - Director/Writer
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsKamalAhmadIn this early short subject set in a school which uses some animation, the pupils are shown imitating the movements of other creatures."So I Can"
Short film - Director/Writer - DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsMohammad FassihMassoud ZandMehdi NekoueïA woman orders a suit from a tailor for her young son to wear to her sister's wedding. The tailor's apprentice, together with two other teenage boys who work in the same building, devise a plan to try on the suit at night to see what it feels like. Things get a little complicated but in the morning, at the last possible minute, they manage to return the suit to its proper place.Feature film - Director/Writer
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsShahinA vibrant film essay exploring the range of hues that color our world, creatively introducing color values to young children as the narrator depicts where each appears in nature or in manufactured objects-featuring footage of consumer culture in Iran prior to the 1979 Iranian Revolution."The Colours"
Short film - Director/Writer - DirectorAbbas KiarostamiA youth short made by the director when he began his career doing work for the Iranian Children's cultural institute."How to Make Use of Our Leisure Time?"
Short film - Director/Writer
(A youth short made by the director when he began his career doing work for the Iranian Children's cultural institute) - DirectorAbbas KiarostamiIn this short subject from the early part of Kiarostami's career, he interviewed schoolteachers in Iran to pay tribute to the role of education in that country's society."Tribute to the Teachers"
Documentary short - Director/Writer
(In this short subject from the early part of Kiarostami's career, he interviewed schoolteachers in Iran to pay tribute to the role of education in that country's society) - DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsKurosh AfsharpanahShohreh AghdashlooMostafa TariThe life of a tax collector who is accused of taking bribes, and also has to deal with other problems at home, including the suicide attempt of his wife.Feature film - Director/Writer
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiA documentary about the restoration and change of the interior architecture of Jahan Nama Palace"Jahan-nama Palace"
Documentary short - Director/Writer
(A documentary about the restoration and change of the interior architecture of Jahan Nama Palace) - DirectorAbbas KiarostamiShot amid spectacular mountain scenery north of Tehran during the Iranian revolution, this whimsical road movie follows a young man trying to hitch a ride with an unwieldy tire. After being repeatedly passed, he rolls his companion down the mountain in this lyrical journey filmed far from the instability of Iran's capital.Short film - Director/Writer
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsMehdi AzadbakhtMohammadreza BaratiHedayat Matin DaftariWhile the teacher is faced towards the blackboard, one of the students makes some funny noises. The teacher can't find the person who did that, so he decides to dismiss a group of students for one week or until one of them tells him who was the one that made the noises. In the first case after some days, one of the dismissed students tells teacher the truth. In the second case, no one tells teacher the truth and the period of punishment finishes. Kiarostami asks some of the most famous people in Iran about their views on these two cases."First Case, Second Case"
Feature film - Director/Writer - DirectorAbbas KiarostamiYoung Mohammad-Reza falls victim to tooth decay woes-and Kiarostami takes advantage of his misfortune by documenting the trauma of the subsequent dental appointment-crafting a humorous portrait eliciting empathy for a young man in a troubling situation familiar to many."Toothache"
Short film - Director/Writer - DirectorNaser Zera'atiDriver"
Short film - Writer - DirectorAbbas KiarostamiA short film challenging humankind on universal themes of stability versus chaos.Short film - Director/Writer
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsYoosef MoghaddamAli AsgariTeymourA deaf old man wearing a hearing aid is walking in the streets of Rasht. When the surroundings get too noisy, he turns off his sound. Unfortunately, when he returns home, he can't hear his granddaughter ringing the doorbell.Short film - Director/Writer
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiIn this documentary a citizen is trying in a street of Tehran to control the traffic and not let people to break the law which cause them to react differently and lead to funny situations."Fellow Citizen"
Documentary film - Director/Writer - DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsMohammad DadrasA concealed camera follows a group of first graders during their day at school.Feature film - Director/Writer
- DirectorEbrahim ForouzeshStarsAmir Mohammad PourhassanMahnaz AnsarianAbbas JafariA young boy is locked into his apartment when his mother goes out and must care for his baby brother and cope with various domestic catastrophes while his grandmother and a neighbor try to locate his mother or the key to the apartment.Feature film - Writer
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsBabek Ahmed PoorAhmed Ahmed PoorKhodabakhsh DefaeiEight-year-old Ahmed has mistakenly taken his friend Mohammad's notebook. He wants to return it, or else his friend will be expelled from school. The boy determinedly sets out to find Mohammad's home in the neighbouring village.Feature film - Director/Writer
(first film of the Koker trilogy) - DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsBabak AhmadpoorFarhang AkhavanMohammad Reza NematzadehIn this documentary, Kiarostami asks a number of students about their school homework. The answers of some children shows the darker side of this method of education."Homework"
Documentary film - Director/Writer - DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsHossain SabzianMohsen MakhmalbafAbolfazl AhankhahThe true story of Hossain Sabzian, a cinephile who impersonated the director Mohsen Makhmalbaf to convince a family they would star in his so-called new film.Docufiction film - Director/Writer
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsFarhad KheradmandPouya PayvarBehrouz AbediniA director and his son return to a region damaged by the Guilan earthquake, hoping to find the children who appeared in his film a few years earlier.Feature film - Director/Writer
(second film of the Koker trilogy) - DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsMohamad Ali KeshavarzFarhad KheradmandZarifeh ShivaA depiction of the off-screen relationship between the actors who play the newlyweds in the film And Life Goes On (1992).Feature film - Director/Writer
(third film of the Koker trilogy) - DirectorCatherine BreillatCosta-GavrasClaire DenisStarsBernard BenassayagThierry Saïd BouibilJérôme ChabreyrieAnthology of short films from various directors about the French city of Nice.Short film - Director/Writer (segment "Repérages")
- DirectorTheodoros AngelopoulosVicente ArandaJohn BoormanStarsPernilla AugustMax von SydowMerzak Allouache40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière brothers.Short film - Director/Writer
- DirectorJafar PanahiStarsAida MohammadkhaniMohsen KafiliFereshteh Sadre OrafaiySeveral people try to help a little girl to find the money her mom gave her to buy a goldfish with.Feature film - Writer
- DirectorAlireza RaisianStarsDariush FarhangFarokhlagha HushmandFatemah Motamed-AriaAn exploration of the psychological effects of war on a middle-class Iranian family who flee Teheran following a night air raid.Feature film - Writer
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsHomayoun ErshadiAbdolhosein BagheriAfshin Khorshid BakhtiariAn Iranian man drives his car in search of someone who will quietly bury him under a cherry tree after he commits suicide.Feature film - Director/Writer
- DirectorAbbas Kiarostami"The Birth of Light"
Short film - Director/Writer - DirectorMohammad Ali TalebiStarsHadi AlipourAmir JanfadaMajid AlipourA boy breaks a window at his school and sets out to fix it on his own during a storm."Willow and Wind"
Feature film - Writer - DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsBehzad DoraniNoghre AsadiRoushan Karam ElmiIrreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.Feature film - Director/Writer
- DirectorLeon CakoffRenata de AlmeidaThe eyes with which the film views the megacity of São Paolo is that of a foreigner, the maestro Abbas Kiarostami. The film is a tribute to Kiarostami, who came here as a member of the international jury of the São Paolo International Film Festival, and turned his observations of a street girl into a screen play 'A Good, Good Citizen', never before filmed. It is a tribute to the inhabitants of the city who, despite the poverty, filth and chaos, live and survive with dignity. The architecture of the city centre, both deteriorated and renewed, miserable and opulent, is the setting where these generous people improvise and endure in order to keep their genuine joy of living and face the reality.Short film - Writer
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsAbbas KiarostamiSeifollah SamadianDocumentary account of the AIDS crisis in Uganda.Documentary film - Director/Writer
- DirectorAlireza RaisianStarsLeila HatamiNezam ManouchehriMehran RajabiOn 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 nearby village and encounters a teacher who offers to help. Whilst the husband and teacher go off to find a spare part, the wife, who used to be a teacher, takes over the teaching lessons in the village. It is clear that the children live there, in this strange deserted place, without any men, save the teacher and an old signal guard. As the day draws on, the children help to bring a new hope and life into the wife's heart."The Deserted Station"
Feature film - Writer (based on a story by Abbas Kiarostami) - DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsMania AkbariAmina MaherKamran AdlA visual social examination in the form of ten conversations between a driving woman and her various pick-ups and hitchhikers.Docufiction film - Director/Writer
- DirectorJafar PanahiStarsHossain EmadeddinKamyar SheisiAzita RayejiAn Iranian pizza delivery man sees the worst of corruption and social unbalance in his city and is driven to crime.Feature film - Writer
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiFive sequences : 1) A piece of driftwood on the seashore, carried about by the waves 2) People walking on the seashore. The oldest ones stop by, look at the sea, then go away 3) Blurry shapes on a winter beach. A herd of dogs. A love story 4) A group of loud ducks cross the image, in one direction then the other 5) A pond, at night. Frogs improvising a concert. A storm, then the sunrise.Documentary film - Director/Writer
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsAbbas KiarostamiMania AkbariDocumentary where Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami reflects on his own film-making techniques, drawing from his own films - and Ten (2002) in particular.Documentary film - Director/Writer
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiKen LoachErmanno OlmiStarsCarlo Delle PianeValeria Bruni TedeschiSilvana De SantisDuring a train journey from Central Europe to Rome, characters connect through casual encounters and set forth a story of love, chance and sacrifice. One single journey sparks many changes for many people.Feature film - Director/Writer
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsAbbas KiarostamiA documentary which is consist of poetry, music and photos. Kiarostami made this of some photos he had take from some Iran's roads which he has passed himself during many years.Short film - Director/Writer
- DirectorMani HaghighiStarsAtila PesianiMahmoud KalariAhmad HamedA political allegory on four middle-class guys who pile into their car for a ski weekend. A brief stop at a picturesque vista leads to their chance discovery of a prominent rock formation it seems would be oh so easy to tip over, but..."Men at Work"
Feature film - Writer (initial story concept by Kiarostami) - DirectorBehruz AfkhamiRakhshan BanietemadBahram BeyzaieStarsRamzali DadvarSadegh DamyarHossein EskandariPersian Carpet is an omnibus film produced by Iran's National Carpet Center and Farabi Cinema Foundation where 15 renowned Iranian directors contributed films on the subject of Persian carpet. Carpets are the reflection of the cultural and historical identity of Iran.Feature film - Director/Writer
(only the Is There a Place to Approach? segment
one of 15 segments in Persian Carpet, in which each is by a different Iranian director) - DirectorAbbas KiarostamiIt is a short documentary film from the Iranian carpet collection that Abbas Kiarostami made in Iran in 2006."Is There a Place to Approach?"
Short film - Director/Writer - DirectorTheodoros AngelopoulosOlivier AssayasBille AugustStarsIsabelle AdjaniPegah AhangaraniAnouk AiméeA collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feelings about Cinema.Short film - Director/Writer (segment "Where is my Romeo?")
- DirectorVíctor EriceAbbas KiarostamiRelationships and multiple influences between two great directors of modern cinema.Feature film - Director/Writer
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsMahnaz AfsharPegah AhangaraniTaraneh AlidoostiWomen's expressions are captured as they watch Khosrow and Shirin, a 12th-century Persian play staged by Kiarostami, revealing their reactions to the unseen narrative.Feature film - Director/Writer
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsJuliette BinocheWilliam ShimellJean-Claude CarrièreIn Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged British writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano. While there, a chance question reveals something deeper.Feature film - Director/Writer
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiA little girl with beautiful hair. She loves movies and wants to become an actress. She is being told about the plot of a movie that she is going to play: "a friend is jealous about her hair and cuts it when she is asleep". The girl rejects playing the role. Then she is then told that she can play the jealous girl but she again rejects the role.Documentary short - Director/Writer
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiBanafsheh ModaressiStarsRin TakanashiTadashi OkunoRyô KaseIn Tokyo, a young sex worker develops an unexpected connection with a widower over a period of two days.Feature film - Director/Writer
- DirectorAdel YaraghiStarsLeila HatamiAdel YaraghiBahareh RahnamaA chain smoker is about to marry his fiance; her only condition is for him to quit smoking. He has to make a difficult choice as his profession is interconnected with this poisonous passion."Meeting Leila"
Feature film - Writer - DirectorChiara MaranonStarsJulia Scrive-LoyerShort film - Writer
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiLife and death of three seagull eggs by the sea.Short film - Director/Writer
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiThe 15 minutes film features a "football" in the main lead. The philosophical and thematic meanings can be derived by the viewer with their own instinct.Short film - Director/Writer
- DirectorAdel YaraghiStarsBehnam AsgariAmir SalamatiShahab HosseiniFarhad, a respected math teacher, is engaged to the mother of one of his pupils. But rather than embrace his new father figure, the angry young student spends his days riding around Tehran on a motorcycle with his rebellious friend, refusing to study - or even sit - for his big final exam."Final Exam"
Feature film - Writer - DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsMohamad Ramezani PourCollection of 24 short four-and-a-half minute films inspired by still images, including paintings and photographs.Feature film - Director/Writer