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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
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
A young orphan named Amiro lives alone in an abandoned tanker in the Iranian port city of Abadan. He survives by shining shoes, selling water, and...
The Runner
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
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?
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...
Life, and Nothing More…
During the Iran-Iraq War, Bashu, a young boy loses his house and all his family. Scared, he sneaks into a truck that is leaving the area. He gets off...
Bashu, the Little Stranger
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
Young male students at a local Iranian school are asked about their feelings on homework.
Homework
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...
First Case, Second Case
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
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...
The Bread and Alley
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 for One Problem
The boys of the neighborhood are dividing into two groups to run a kite. The first groups are watching the kite happily but the other group try to...
Oriental Boy
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
On July 1983, lawmakers in Teheran decided to close off a section of the capital to regular traffic. Only drivers with special permits could cross...
Fellow Citizen
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...
The Colours
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.
Recess
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 humorous slice of educational instruction on refurbishing and painting" (MoMA).
How to Make Use of Leisure Time: Painting