# Abbas Kiarostami filmography

Abbas Kiarostami was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer and film producer whose filmmaking career spanned more than 40 years.

## Films

| Year | English title | Original title | Length | Notes |
| 1970 | The Bread and Alley | Nān o Kūcheh | 10 minutes | Short (debut) featuring a school boy facing an aggressive dog |
| 1972 | Breaktime | Zang-e Tafrih | 11 minutes | Short |
| 1973 | The Experience | Tajrobeh | 60 minutes | Written with Amir Naderi |
| 1974 | The Traveler | Mosafer | 70 minutes | Realism and complexity versus simplicity |
| 1975 | So Can I | Man ham Mitounam | 3 minutes | Short |
| 1975 | Two Solutions for One Problem | Do Rahehal Baraye yek Masaleh | 4 minutes | Short |
| 1976 | Colors | Rang-ha | 15 minutes | Short |
| 1976 | A Wedding Suit | Lebasi Baraye Arossi | 57 minutes | Themes of teenage conflict |
| 1977 | How to Make Use of Leisure Time: Painting | Az Oghat-e Faraghat-e Khod Chegouneh Estefadeh Konim: naghashi | 7 minutes | Short |
| 1977 | The Report | Gozaresh | 112 minutes | Kiarostami's first full-length film, featuring Academy Award-nominated actress Shohreh Aghdashloo. |
| 1977 | Tribute to the Teachers | Bozorgdasht-e Moalemha | 20 minutes | Short |
| 1978 | Solution | Rah-e Hal | 11 minutes 55 | Short |
| 1979 | First Case, Second Case | Ghazieh-e Shekl-e Aval, Ghazieh-e Shekl-e Dovom | 53 minutes | |
| 1980 | Toothache | Dandan Dard | 26 minutes | Short |
| 1981 | Orderly or Disorderly | Be Tartib Ya Bedun-e Tartib | 15 minutes | Short |
| 1982 | The Chorus | Hamsarayan | 17 minutes | Short |
| 1983 | Fellow Citizen | Hamshahri | 52 minutes | Documentary |
| 1984 | First Graders | Avaliha | 84 minutes | Documentary |
| 1987 | Where Is My Friend's House? | Khane-ye doust kodjast? | 83 minutes | Award win at the Locarno International Film Festival |
| 1987 | The Key | Kelid | 85 minutes | Screenwriter and editor only |
| 1989 | Homework | Mashgh-e Shab | 86 minutes | |
| 1990 | Close-up | Nema-ye Nazdik | 100 minutes | In the 2012 Sight & Sound poll, it was voted by critics onto "The Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time" list. |
| 1992 | Life, and Nothing More... | Zendegi va digar hich | 95 minutes | Fiction/documentary |
| 1993 | Journey to the Land of the Traveller | Safari be Diare Mosafer | | Producer only. Directed by his son Bahman Kiarostami |
| 1994 | Through the Olive Trees | Zire darakhatan zeyton | 103 minutes | Last in the Koker trilogy set around the Tehran earthquake |
| 1994 | The Journey | Safar | 84 minutes | Screenwriter only. Directed by Ali-Reza Raisian |
| 1995 | The White Balloon | Badkonake sefid | 85 minutes | Screenwriter only. Directed by Jafar Panahi |
| 1995 | A propos de Nice, la suite | | | Segment Reperages, codirected with Parviz Kimiavi |
| 1995 | Lumiere and Company | | | Segment Dinner for One |
| 1997 | The Birth of Light | | | Short |
| 1997 | Taste of Cherry | Ta'm-e gilass | 95 minutes | Starring Homayon Ershadi. Won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival |
| 1999 | The Wind Will Carry Us | Bād mā rā khāhad bord | 118 minutes | Golden Lion nomination at Venice |
| 1999 | Willow and Wind | | | Screenwriter only. |
| 2001 | ABC Africa | | 84 minutes | Documentary that was taped in Kampala, Uganda on behalf of the UN |
| 2002 | Ten | Dah | 89 minutes | Taped using a dashboard video camera Made $105,656 on US release |
| 2002 | The Deserted Station | | | Story only |
| 2003 | Crimson Gold | Talaye Sorkh | | Screenwriter only. Directed by Jafar Panahi |
| 2003 | Five | Panj | 74 minutes | |
| 2003 | Ten Minutes Older | | | Not included in Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet or Ten Minutes Older: The Cello |
| 2004 | 10 on Ten | | 88 minutes | Documentary |
| 2005 | Tickets | | 109 minutes | Middle section. Directed with Ken Loach and Ermanno Olmi |
| 2005 | The Roads of Kiarostami | | 32 minutes | Documentary short |
| 2006 | Rug | | 6 minutes | Short |
| 2007 | Kojast jaye residan | | | Documentary short |
| 2007 | To Each His Own Cinema | | 100 minutes | Segment Where Is My Romeo? |
| 2008 | Shirin | | 90 minutes | |
| 2010 | Certified Copy | Copie conforme | 106 minutes | Juliette Binoche won the Best Actress Award at Cannes. |
| 2010 | No | | 8 minutes | Short |
| 2012 | Like Someone in Love | ライク・サムワン・イン・ラブ | 109 minutes | Japanese film starring Rin Takanashi. |
| 2013 | Venice 70: Future Reloaded | | 1 minute | Untitled segment, which gives tribute to the Lumière brothers' L'Arroseur Arrosé |
| 2016 | Take Me Home | | 16 minutes | Short |
| 2017 | 24 Frames | | 114 minutes | Posthumously released |