Abbas Kiarostami

A 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.

A 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.

The hard daily life of a kid working in a photo shop while trying to get closer to the girl he likes.

A 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.

When one boy tears another boy's book, it is up to the two of them to decide how to handle it.

In this early short subject set in a school which uses some animation, the pupils are shown imitating the movements of other creatures.

A 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.

A 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.

A youth short made by the director when he began his career doing work for the Iranian Children's cultural institute.

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.

The 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.

A documentary about the restoration and change of the interior architecture of Jahan Nama Palace

Shot 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.

While 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.

Young 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.

A short film challenging humankind on universal themes of stability versus chaos.

A 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.

In 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.

A concealed camera follows a group of first graders during their day at school.

A 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.

Eight-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.

In 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.

The 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.

A 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.