Director: Abbas Kiarostami
24 Frames
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
Three years in the making and Kiarostami’s final film before his death in 2016, each segment in 24 Frames offers …
A Wedding Suit
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
In a trilevel shopping arcade, a teenage boy who works for a tailor is besieged by two other boys who …
ABC Africa
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
In 2000, Kiarostami traveled to Africa at the request of the United Nations to document a humanitarian crisis unfolding in …
And Life Goes On
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
In the aftermath of the 1990 earthquake in Iran that left fifty thousand dead, Kiarostami returned to Koker, where his …
Case No. 1, Case No. 2
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
This extraordinary film was made in the spring of 1979, not long after the shah’s overthrow. Kiarostami stages two versions …
Certified Copy
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
A late career masterpiece that returned Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami to the world stage, Certified Copy is a shapeshifting film …
Close-Up
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
The recent death of Abbas Kiarostami (1940-2016), one of our greatest filmmakers, was, and will continue to be, a huge …
Five Dedicated to Ozu
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
A piece of driftwood on the seashore, carried about by the waves. People walking on the seashore. The oldest ones …
Homework
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
In Kiarostami’s second documentary feature about education, the filmmaker himself asks the questions, interviewing a succession of invariably cute first- …
Like Someone in Love
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
Kiarostami’s final narrative feature before his death in 2016 is the beguiling Like Someone in Love, a strange sort of …
Shirin
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
One of Kiarostami’s most daring formal experiments turns the camera on the audience. Set entirely in a movie theater showing …
Taste of Cherry
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival and celebrated as the critical rival of his own …
Ten
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
As she roams the streets of Tehran in her car, a recently divorced woman (Mania Akbari) chauffeurs a rotating cast …
The Report
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
The rare early Kiarostami film made outside of Kanoon, and one of the most downbeat of his features, this adult …
The Traveler
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
Kiarostami’s first feature focuses on a boy in a provincial city so avid to get to Tehran to see a …
The Wind Will Carry Us
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
A TV crew from Tehran arrives in a remote Kurdish village to film an unusual funeral ceremony but are stymied …
Through the Olive Trees
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
Kiarostami takes metanarrative gamesmanship to masterful new heights in the final installment of The Koker Trilogy. Unfolding “behind the scenes” …
Where is the Friend’s House?
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
The first film in Kiarostami’s sublime, interlacing Koker Trilogy takes a simple premise—a boy searches for the home of his …