Taste of Cherry / Ta'm e guilass (1997)
Drama
An Iranian man drives his truck in search of someone who will quietly bury him under a cherry tree after he commits suicide.
Starring: Homayoun Ershadi
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
And Life Goes on… / Life, and Nothing More… / Zendegi va digar hich (1992)
Adventure | Drama
A director and his son return to a region damaged by the Guilan earthquake, hoping to find the children who appeared in his film a few years earlier.
Starring: Farhad Kheradmand, Buba Bayour, Hocine Rifahi
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Close-Up / Close Up / Nema-ye Nazdik (1990)
Biography | Drama
Internationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami ('Taste of Cherry', 'Ten') has created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the past thirty years, and Close-up is his most radical, brilliant work. This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves. With its universal themes and fascinating narrative knots, Close-up continues to resonate with viewers around the world.
Starring: Hohsen Makhmalbaf, Hossain Sabzian, Abolfazl Ahankhah, Mehrdad Ahankhah, Monoochehr Ahankhah, Mahrokh Ahankhah, Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Bad ma ra khahad bord / The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)
Drama
The arrival of an engineer and his colleagues from Tehran in a remote village in Iranian Kurdistan. Assumed by the locals – with whom they form an ambivalent relationship – to be archaeologists or telephone engineers, the visitors' behaviour and keen interest in the health of an ailing old woman seem strange and their true motives are shrouded in mystery.
Starring: Behzad Dorani, Noghre Asadi, Roushan Karam Elmi, Bahman Ghobadi, Shahpour Ghobadi
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Like Someone in Love / The End (2012)
Drama
Celebrated Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami takes the helm for this richly textured Japanese drama. Akiko (Rin Takanashi) is a young woman living and studying in Tokyo who is also moonlighting as a prostitute to make ends meet. When she meets her latest client, the shy and timid old man Takashi (Tadashi Okuno), she is surprised to find out he is merely lonely and has no interest in having sex. The two share a meal and the next morning Takashi takes Akiko to school. When an unexpected run-in with Akiko's boyfriend Noriaki (Ryo Kase) causes Takashi to lie and say he is her grandfather, it begins a relationship between the three which is based on lies but holds something much more meaningful.
Starring: Tadashi Okuno, Rin Takanashi, Ryô Kase, Denden, Reiko Mori, Kaneko Kubota
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Certified Copy / Copie conforme (2010)
Drama
While promoting his latest book in Italy, a middle-aged English writer meets a French woman from the art world and sets off to San Gimignano with her.
Starring: Juliette Binoche, William Shimell
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
