Abbas Kiarostami — Director (28)
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First Graders (1984) IMDb TMDB
اولی‌ها...
director: Abbas Kiarostami actor: Mohammad Dadras
other title: Les Élèves du cours préparatoire / Los alumnos del curso preparatorio …
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 summoned by their superintendent for questions of discipline. The man is not severe, but clever and fair. He teaches loyalty, fellowship and righteousness to these boys. Besides these interviews, we see scenes of this school’s quotidian life.
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Five (2003) IMDb TMDB
Five Dedicated to Ozu
director: Abbas Kiarostami
other title: Five Dedicated to Ozu
Le film se subdivise en quatre plans-séquence sur le bord de mer, la mer étant face caméra, et se conclut par le plan-séquence (en fait plusieurs plans aux collures invisibles) d'un étang nocturne
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Persian Carpet (2007) WikiData IMDb TMDB
فرش ایرانی
director: Behruz Afkhami / Rakhshan Banietemad … actor: Reza Kianian / Leila Otadi …
other title: فرش ایرانی
Persian 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.
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A Wedding Suit (1976)
لباسی برای عروسی‎‎
director: Abbas Kiarostami actor: Mohammad Fassih / Mehdi Nekoueï …
other title: Le Costume de mariage / Un traje para la boda …
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.
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Orderly or Disorderly? (1981)
به ترتیب یا بدون ترتیب؟
director: Abbas Kiarostami
other title: Orderly or Disorderly / Avec ou sans ordre …
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 this educational short film in which the same action is first shown in an organised way and then in an anarchic one. The film crew, however, finds it difficult to organise disorder.
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The Chorus (1982) WikiData IMDb TMDB
همسرایان
director: Abbas Kiarostami actor: Yoosef Moghaddam
other title: Le Choeur / همسرایان …
An old man with a hearing aid tires of listening to the noises of the town. But when he takes his aid out he can't hear his grandchildren coming to see him.
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The Bread and Alley (1970) WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
نان و کوچه‎‎
director: Abbas Kiarostami actor: Reza Hashemi / Mehdi Shahravanfar
other title: Le Pain et la Rue / نان و کوچه‎‎ …
After returning from an errand to get bread, a young boy encounters a dog that frightens him making the journey to get home more difficult than he could’ve imagined.
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The Colours (1976) WikiData IMDb TMDB
...رنگ‌ها
director: Abbas Kiarostami actor: Shahin Amir Arjomand
other title: Couleurs / Los colores …
By showing a series of different-coloured objects, the film aims to familiarize very young children with the various colours.
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Recess (1972) WikiData IMDb TMDB
زنگ تفریح‎‎
director: Abbas Kiarostami actor: Sirous Hassanpour
other title: La Récréation / La hora del recreo …
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.
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Ten (2002)
ده
director: Abbas Kiarostami actor: Mania Akbari / Amina Maher …
other title: Dieci / Dez …
A visual social examination in the form of ten conversations between a driving woman and her various pick-ups and hitchhikers.
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Venice 70: Future Reloaded (2013) IMDb TMDB
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
director: Pablo Larraín / Júlio Bressane … actor: Bernardo Bertolucci / Haile Gerima …
other title: Venezia 70: Future Reloaded
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 the future of cinema.
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Lumière & Company (1995) IMDb TMDB
Lumière et Compagnie
director: Francis Girod / David Lynch … actor: Jeff Alperi / Romane Bohringer …
other title: Lumière et Compagnie / Lumière e Companhia …
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and (3) no more than three takes.
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24 Frames (2017) IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
24 Frames
director: Abbas Kiarostami actor: Farhad Farhadi / Salma Mansh …
other title: 24帧 / 24 فریم …
A collection of 24 short four-and-a-half minutes films inspired by still images, including paintings and photographs. An experimental project made by filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami in the last three years of his life.
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Like Someone in Love (2012)
Like Someone in Love
★ 7.3 (6 ratings) director: Abbas Kiarostami actor: Rin Takanashi / Tadashi Okuno …
other title: Qualcuno da amare / Like Someone in Love (Como alguien enamorado) …
An old man and a young woman meet in Tokyo. She knows nothing about him, he thinks he knows her. He welcomes her into his home, she offers him her body. But the web that is woven between them in the space of twenty four hours bears no relation to the circumstances of their encounter.
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To Each His Own Cinema (2007)
Chacun son cinema ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumiere s'eteint et que le film commence
director: Theodoros Angelopoulos / Olivier Assayas … actor: Golshifteh Farahani / Gina Clayton …
other title: A ciascuno il suo cinema / Cada um o seu Cinema …
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.