Movies

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...

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

First Case, Second Case is a documentary about a teacher who sends a group of pupils out of the classroom when one of them does not own up to talking...

A sense of order is the necessary basis of any good social organisation. To illustrate this axiom, Kiarostami presents a series of paired scenes in...

Returning from an errand to buy bread, a boy finds a menacing dog blocking his way through the alley he must go down to get home. Frightened by the...

A documentary film about a boys school in Iran. The film shows numerous, funny and moving interviews of many different young pupils of this school...

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...

The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets....

Abbas Kiarostami shoots a documentary about the AIDS crisis in Uganda.

Kiarostami as we have never really known him before, despite the transformative power of his many movies. Filmmaker and close friend Samadian avoids...

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...

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...

Gheysar returns home to find that his young sister has committed suicide and his older brother Farman got killed. When he finds that Aghmangol...

Static shots of his photos alternate with footage of director Abbas Kiarostami's car winding through mountain roads, as the Iranian filmmaker muses...

A boy on his way home from school kicks a ball out of a street where some children are playing. He's chased and forced to take a new way home.

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...

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

Calamity by four-year old might be another title for this tense, humorous drama. In the story, a four year old boy (Mohammed Aladpoush) is left at...

"10 on Ten" is a 2004 Iranian documentary film directed by Abbas Kiarostami. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film...