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 one pair of shoes. School awaits.

An old villager deeply in love with his cow goes to the capital for a while. While he's there, the cow dies and now the villagers are afraid of his possible reaction to it when he returns.

1987 film by Abbas Kiarostami

Complications arise in a director's attempt to film a scene in Life, and Nothing More... (1992).

A boy breaks a window at his school and sets out to fix it on his own during a storm.

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.

1997 film directed by Abbas Kiarostami

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.

When a young girl's mother doesn't meet her after school, she tries to navigate the streets of Tehran by herself.

Makhmalbaf puts an advertisement in the papers calling for an open casting for his next movie. However when hundreds of people show up, he decides to make a movie about the casting and the screen tests of the would-be actors.

A semi-autobiographical account of Makhmalbaf's experience as a teenager when, as a 17-year-old, he stabbed a policeman at a protest rally. Two decades later, he tracks down the policeman he injured in an attempt to make amends.

An elderly couple go about their routine of cleaning their gabbeh, while bickering gently with each other. Magically, a young woman appears, helping the two clean the rug. This young woman belongs to the clan whose history is depicted in the design of the gabbeh, and the rug recounts the story of the courtship of the young woman by a stranger from the clan.

Khorshid, a blind child growing up in Tajikistan, is constantly distracted by music and sounds. This frequently causes him to be late to his job as an instrument tuner even though he runs the risk of being fired at a time when his family is in danger of being evicted from their house.

1990 film by Abbas Kiarostami

After an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she takes a perilous journey through Afghanistan to try to find her.

After twelve years of imprisonment by their own parents, two Iranian sisters are finally released by social workers to face the outside world for the first time.

Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the Iran-Iraq war. Said falls in with a group of old men looking for their bombed-out village; he offers to guide them, and takes as his wife Halaleh, the clan's lone woman, a widow with a young son. Reeboir attaches himself to a dozen pre-teen boys weighed down by contraband they carry across the border; they're mules, always on the move. Said and Reeboir try to teach as their potential students keep walking. Danger is close; armed soldiers patrol the skies, the roads, and the border. Is there a role for a teacher? Is there hope?

A girl reaches the age of nine and is supposed to act as a grown woman according to her family. A girl participates in a bike race against the will of her husband. An elderly woman decides she wants to buy all the things she always wanted but could never get.

作为世界上最古老、最辉煌的文明之一，波斯在五千年的风云变幻中，先后与希腊、阿拉伯、蒙古等多个文明发生碰撞与交流，近代以来又多次发生激烈的变革。作者从波斯文明自身的视角出发，将文学与政治交织，文化与社会相融，既展现了“新月”上的杀伐纠葛，又流露出“蔷薇”下的温婉柔情。
这是一部文明冲突与更迭的历史。从古代波斯到现代伊朗，这片土地的过去、现在与未来在这本书里栩栩如生。

这是一部伊朗近现代通史，囊括了1501—2009年这500多年的历史。
从16世纪萨法维王朝建立统治，到欧洲帝国主义时代、世界大战时期的艰难求存，再到巴列维时期的西方化改革，最后是震惊世界的伊斯兰革命，耶鲁大学伊朗研究中心主阿巴斯·阿马纳特讲述了今日伊朗是如何形成的。