
Taste of Cherry
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...
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...
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...
This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the...
An 8 year old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school.
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...
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...
In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged English writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano.
Complications arise in a director's attempt to film a scene in Life, and Nothing More... (1992).
Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural Kurdish village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his...
A visual social examination in the form of ten conversations between a driving woman and her various pick-ups and hitchhikers.
Several people try to take advantage of a little girl's innocence to hustle money her mom gave to her to buy a goldfish with.
Pizza man Hussein is a daily witnesses to the unjust distribution of wealth in his native Iran. One day, he finds a purse filled with shockingly...
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under...
A collection of 24 short four-and-a-half minutes films inspired by still images, including paintings and photographs. An experimental project made by...
A train travels across Italy toward Rome. On board is a professor who daydreams a conversation with a love that never was, a family of Albanian...
A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and...
Young male students at a local Iranian school are asked about their feelings on 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...
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...
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...
Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh,...
Finding himself in a house in the north of Iran by the Caspian Sea, the director picked up his handheld DV camera and began filming the seemingly...