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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...
Taste of Cherry
An 8-year-old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school.
Where Is The Friend's House?
This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the...
Close-Up
Zohre's shoes are gone; her older brother Ali lost them. They are poor, there are no shoes for Zohre until they come up with an idea: they will share...
Children of Heaven
After the earthquake of Guilan, a film director and his son travel to the devastated area to search for the actors from the movie the director made...
And Life Goes On
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...
The Chorus
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...
A Wedding Suit
Young male students at a local Iranian school are asked about their feelings on homework.
Homework
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...
The Traveler
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 behind the master's back.
First Case, Second Case
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...
The Bread and Alley
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...
Orderly or Disorderly?
"A humorous slice of educational instruction on refurbishing and painting" (MoMA).
How to Make Use of Leisure Time: Painting
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...
The Key
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.
Breaktime
By showing a series of different-coloured objects, the film aims to familiarize very young children with the various colours.
Colors
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...
Two Solutions to One Problem
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...
First Graders
A man, unable to hitch a ride back to his broken-down car with a new tire, rolls it back to his car while running.
Solution No. 1
A eductional short film based on a child named Mohammed-Reza and his poor dental habits. A majority of the second half film discusses many questions...
Toothache