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.

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.

Evidently the first installment in a series that didn’t continue, this instructional film shows idle twelve- and sixteen-year-
old brothers learning how to improve their surroundings by painting an old door. With the narrator giving step-by-step instructions, the boys go through the processes of sanding, applying primer, and mixing different types of paint. Whatever its educational value, the film’s quiet enthusiasm for its subject also reflects Kiarostami’s own interest in woodworking.

By showing a series of different-coloured objects, the film aims to familiarize very young children with the various colours.

Two children watching animals move in an animated film try to imitate their gestures — until they see real birds fly and a real airplane take off.

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 possible outcomes, which the film shows one after the other. One is that Dara wants to get his own back, and the two boys start a violent fight; the other is that they work together to mend the exercise book with a little glue.

The second movie of Kiarostami, made in 1972. It calls in my mind some of the very first movies of Brakhage, especially The Way to Shadow Garden. In both cases, a minimalistic gem, nothing explained, a personage without history, without motivation, with the unique role of putting in value a disconcerting universe.
Is it the admirable end of Breaktime a negative stasis (like in the movie of Brakhage)? Well, it is somehow a way to the Gardens of Shadow, too, though I think it is, much more, something else: it is an end refusing to be the end (as the movie actually has no beginning, also). This fourteen minutes movie dares to eliminate the story from its structure! It is a shame that Breaktime passed unobserved, because it was marking a new age in the history of cinema.

一个叫穆罕默德的14岁小男孩在一家照相器材店里做勤杂工，晚上可以睡在店里。他对一个住在富人区的小姑娘产生了朦胧的爱意。一天早上，他得到机会到这个女孩家里维修照相机，但是最终他意识到自己对女孩的爱是无望的。

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. Things get a little complicated but in the morning, at the last possible minute, they manage to return the suit to its proper place.

名副其實的大師班，基阿魯斯達米開壇教你如何拍電影。由頭到尾坐在越野車駕駛座自拍的真人 show，但鏡頭絕不單調，因為車子背後不斷變換著《櫻桃的滋味》的場景。畫面沒動過剪刀，只見他滔滔不絕講那十課電影：攝影、主題、劇本、演員、音樂......

Kiarostami presents two cases for talking heads to evaluate in terms of morality, rights and responsibilities. Case One: Your son is in class, sitting in the back row. His teacher is writing on the board. A restless student in the back row makes a lot of noise. Not knowing who the culprit is, the teacher makes all the children sitting in the last two rows stay outside of the class until the weekend, unless they tell him who made the noise. After a few days spent outside of the classroom, your son relents and tattles on the boy who made the noise, so he can go back in and continue learning. Was he in the right? Case Two: The other students from the back row wait out the rest of the week outside of the class, before returning. Were they in the right?

1）沙滩上，一小截断木随着海浪滚来滚去，不得自主。在不断拍打之下，它最终断为两截，朝着不同的方向各自行进；2）蓝天白云，和风拂面。人们悠闲地在海边散步，他们欢声笑语，无忧无虑。海鸥在天空自由地鸣叫，一切似乎都是那么祥和、宁静；3）空旷的海边上，六条小狗在这里游戏嬉耍，似乎没有人能够搅扰它们的快乐；4）鸭子们迈着凌乱的步伐从这头走向那头，再从那头奔向这头，谁也不知道它们想些什么，或者只是沉迷于这样的行动；5）深夜，蝉鸣、虫鸣、蛙鸣，风声、雨声、水声，大自然的万物在这一刻演绎了绝佳的协奏曲。
本片为伊朗著名导演阿巴斯向小津安二郎的致敬之作。

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.

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 the road blocks set up at various intersections leading to the restricted zone.

2012 film by Abbas Kiarostami

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 efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.

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 Tehran. In order to achieve that, he scams his friends and neighbors.

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.

1977 film by Abbas Kiarostami

穆罕莫德·菜萨一家从老到小都不注意口腔卫生,结果是父亲和爷爷去看了牙医,穆罕莫德自己也因患严重的牙病而被迫停学。在医院里,当小穆罕莫德在椅子上经受治疗的痛苦时,一位牙科教授面对摄影机讲了预防牙病的重要性。