Emerging out of an Iranian cinema renaissance, TASTE OF CHERRY is seen by many as its crowning achievement. The story of somber yet intense Mr. Badii and his journey through Tehran, the film emerges as a sort of spiritual road movie. Intent on finding an aid for his planned suicide, Badii encounters... Read more

$10.00 - $30.00

This triptych from acclaimed directors Abbas Kiarostami, Ken Loach, and Ermanno Olmi weaves together three interrelated stories about passengers on a train to Rome, who meet each other in passing but are linked by deeper themes and issues. The stellar cast includes Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Blerta Cah... Read more

$12.00 - $27.00

This double feature presents a pair of dramas highlighting the talents of four world-class filmmakers. TICKETS: This triptych from acclaimed directors Abbas Kiarostami, Ken Loach, and Ermanno Olmi weaves together three interrelated stories about passengers on a train to Rome, who meet each other... Read more

$18.00 - $40.00

With his use of non-actors and his loose use of documentary rules, Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami's (TASTE OF CHERRY) films can often be characterized by asking whether what the viewer is seeing is reality or fiction. The film which perhaps most exemplifies this is CLOSE-UP, ostensibly a document... Read more

$14.00 - $50.00

Filmed entirely inside a car, a woman drives through the streets of Tehran, picking up and dropping off passengers--her son, a friend, her sister, a prostitute--as she runs errands and goes about her busy days. The title TEN represents the distinct conversations that the woman has with each of her p... Read more

$17.00 - $30.00

A 1987 nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature, Ahmad Shamlou is a celebrated Iranian writer, poet, and journalist who played a key role in the development of Persian blank verse. Shamlou's work combined abstract elements with specific, concrete imagery, effectively creating a new realm of Middle ... Read more

$9.00 - $25.00

Originally intended as a documentary about the orphans of Uganda's destructive civil war, Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami (TASTE OF CHERRY) expanded the scope of ABC AFRICA to include those stricken by Africa's massive AIDS epidemic and the people who work tirelessly to improve the conditions of t... Read more

$27.00 - $241.00

In what critics call director Abbas Kiarostami's most socially critical film, THE WIND WILL CARRY US has an abstract plot, which is mostly symbolic. A man named Behzad and two of his collegues travel from Tehran, Iran, to the tiny village of Siah Dareh, located on a dry, barren mountainside. They wa... Read more

$8.00 - $15.00

Young Ahmed embarks on a quest to return a classmate's notebook, which he mistakenly took home. Sure that his friend will be expelled from school without the notebook, Ahmed ventures into an unknown neighboring village alone, facing innumerable obstacles in the form of stubborn adults, unfamiliar te... Read more

$90.00 - $90.00

A kind of quasi-documentary sequel to his film WHERE IS THE FRIEND'S HOME?, LIFE AND NOTHING MORE... follows the director (played by an actor) as he learns that the region of northern Iran where he filmed the previous movie has been ravaged by an earthquake. The director, along with his son, leaves ... Read more

$15.00 - $15.00