Abbas Kiarostami

"A humorous slice of educational instruction on refurbishing and painting" (MoMA).

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

By showing a series of different-coloured objects, the film aims to familiarize very young children with the various colours, and ends with a shot of a blackboard, a symbol of learning.

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, ...

Two children watching animals move in an animated film try to imitate their gestures — until they see real birds fly and a real airplane take off.

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 possible outcomes, which the film shows ...

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

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 match in Tehran. In order to achieve that, ...

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

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

This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as ...

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 seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with ...