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- After a boy loses his sister's pair of shoes, he goes on a series of adventures in order to find them. When he can't, he tries a new way to "win" a new pair.
- An Iranian man drives his car in search of someone who will quietly bury him under a cherry tree after he commits suicide.
- The true story of Hossain Sabzian, a cinephile who impersonated the director Mohsen Makhmalbaf to convince a family they would star in his so-called new film.
- Eight-year-old Ahmed has mistakenly taken his friend Mohammad's notebook. He wants to return it, or else his friend will be expelled from school. The boy determinedly sets out to find Mohammad's home in the neighbouring village.
- 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.
- After enrolling in a school, an impoverished boy finds conflict with his classmates and decides to compete to earn their respect.
- The life of a tax collector who is accused of taking bribes, and also has to deal with other problems at home, including the suicide attempt of his wife.
- An Iranian boy is lost after fleeing home for his life; his family has been killed during the Iran-Iraq war. He's saved and trained by a middle-aged woman.
- In this documentary, Kiarostami asks a number of students about their school homework. The answers of some children shows the darker side of this method of education.
- A grade-school-age boy, neglected by his parents, lies, cheats, and steals to accumulate enough money to afford a bus ride to a large city and a ticket to see his favorite soccer team play.
- The hard daily life of a kid working in a photo shop while trying to get closer to the girl he likes.
- 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.
- While the teacher is faced towards the blackboard, one of the students makes some funny noises. The teacher can't find the person who did that, so he decides to dismiss a group of students for one week or until one of them tells him who was the one that made the noises. In the first case after some days, one of the dismissed students tells teacher the truth. In the second case, no one tells teacher the truth and the period of punishment finishes. Kiarostami asks some of the most famous people in Iran about their views on these two cases.
- A deaf old man wearing a hearing aid is walking in the streets of Rasht. When the surroundings get too noisy, he turns off his sound. Unfortunately, when he returns home, he can't hear his granddaughter ringing the doorbell.
- Set on the sun-drenched southern coast of Iran, "Harmonica" begins as a young boy receives a musical present from abroad. Fascinated and envious, his friends make him the leader of the pack, as they compete for the privilege of holding the harmonica or even blowing a few notes. No one is more obsessed than Amiroo, gentle and heavy-set, who seems willing to do anything to get close to the harmonica and its owner.
- One of Naderi's most beautiful films, a kind of magical realist parable that follows a boy's daily chore: bringing an elegant glass bowl to get filled with ice, and then returning home. The simplicity of this ritual stands in contrast to a world in which every glance and every gesture seems loaded with hidden meaning.
- A concealed camera follows a group of first graders during their day at school.
- A child carrying a bread is going home but in the alley on his way to home, there is a frightening dog and he doesn't seem to pass it alone.
- In the yard of an Iranian village school stands in the shade of a tree a large stoneware jar from which all the pupils drink fresh water. On an unfortunate day, the jar starts leaking. The schoolmaster tries hard to get a new one but in vain. The only solution is to have it fixed...
- In this documentary a citizen is trying in a street of Tehran to control the traffic and not let people to break the law which cause them to react differently and lead to funny situations.
- In this short subject from the early part of Kiarostami's career, he interviewed schoolteachers in Iran to pay tribute to the role of education in that country's society.
- A teacher trying to reach a remote village is attacked by wolves..
- When one boy tears another boy's book, it is up to the two of them to decide how to handle it.
- A boy on his way home from school kicks a ball out of street where some children are playing. He's cased and forced to take a new way home.
- Shot amid spectacular mountain scenery north of Tehran during the Iranian revolution, this whimsical road movie follows a young man trying to hitch a ride with an unwieldy tire. After being repeatedly passed, he rolls his companion down the mountain in this lyrical journey filmed far from the instability of Iran's capital.
- The story of the film is about the first months of the imposed war. At a time when families in different cities of Khuzestan were forced to leave their homes and all their attachments and took refuge in other cities to save their lives. But in the meantime, the mother does not intend to leave her home. Meanwhile, the older son and the teenager of the family are angry with this decision of the mother. They constantly complain to their mother that they should leave like all the locals so that they are not destroyed. She argues with her mother under any pretext and talks about leaving. The mother, however, loves the house where she became a mother more than Edo imagines.
- A young boy is locked into his apartment when his mother goes out and must care for his baby brother and cope with various domestic catastrophes while his grandmother and a neighbor try to locate his mother or the key to the apartment.
- In a village of south Iran, young Ismail must protect his family and their property from the hands of loan sharks and big oil companies.
- A vibrant film essay exploring the range of hues that color our world, creatively introducing color values to young children as the narrator depicts where each appears in nature or in manufactured objects-featuring footage of consumer culture in Iran prior to the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
- A short film challenging humankind on universal themes of stability versus chaos.
- A Turkmen boy is very fond of his horse which he himself has raised. A merchant wants to buy the horse. The boy accepts on condition that he remains with the horse himself. They come to Tehran and win a race but the boy feels lonely and decides that he wants to return back to his home. He returns back while his horse is accompanying him.
- The story of a three-month holiday is a summer holiday for boys who are unemployed and during the summer there is an emotional relationship between a student and a family that has come to their city for a vacation.
- A youth short made by the director when he began his career doing work for the Iranian Children's cultural institute.
- A documentary about the restoration and change of the interior architecture of Jahan Nama Palace
- Young Mohammad-Reza falls victim to tooth decay woes-and Kiarostami takes advantage of his misfortune by documenting the trauma of the subsequent dental appointment-crafting a humorous portrait eliciting empathy for a young man in a troubling situation familiar to many.
- A scientific and environmental animation for children
- The story of a young boy who dreams to play in his school's theater but the only role they are giving him is that of a crab.
- The story is about two poor boy's search for their father through a "Journey" from downtown to uptown.
- In this early short subject set in a school which uses some animation, the pupils are shown imitating the movements of other creatures.
- A man arrives in the "Gray City" which is colorless. He carries with him a wonderful flower which arouses the curiosity and the mistrust of the medical profession, the army and the police. Only women and children dare to breathe its fragrance.
- Zal o Simorgh is an epic from Ferdowsi's Shahnameh. Zal is an albino new-born child. Sam as his father (The King) who has never seen an albino child, gets worried and his fear of gossip of people flares his anger and he orders that the new-born be left under the Alborz Mountain. Simorgh the mythical bird finds the naked and hungry baby and takes little Zal to its nest and looks after him until one day.
- A documentary on the life of the leftist writer, Samad Behrangi.