24 Frames

A collection of 24 short four-and-a-half minutes films inspired by still images, including paintings and photographs. An experimental project made by filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami in the last three years of his life.

Venice 70: Future Reloaded

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.

Like Someone in Love

An old man and a young woman meet in Tokyo. She knows nothing about him, he thinks he knows her. He welcomes her into his home, she offers him her body. But the web that is woven between them in the space of twenty four hours bears no relation to the circumstances of their encounter.

Certified Copy

In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged English writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano.

Shirin

A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the text -- long a favorite in Persia and the Middle East -- remains invisible to the viewer of the film, the whole story is told by the faces of the women watching the show.

To Each His Own Cinema

A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about cinema.

Tickets

A train travels across Italy toward Rome. On board is a professor who daydreams a conversation with a love that never was, a family of Albanian refugees who switch trains and steal a ticket, three brash Scottish soccer fans en route to a match, and a complaining widow traveling to a memorial service for her late husband who's accompanied by a community-service volunteer who's assisting her. Interactions among these Europeans turn on class and nationalism, courtesy and rudeness, and ...

Five Dedicated to Ozu

Finding himself in a house in the north of Iran by the Caspian Sea, the director picked up his handheld DV camera and began filming the seemingly anodyne events happening on the 500 metres of beach in front of his house—a piece of wood toyed with by the waves, people walking by the sea, indistinct shapes on a wintry beach or noisy ducks.

Ten

A visual social examination in the form of ten conversations between a driving woman and her various pick-ups and hitchhikers.

Der Wind wird uns tragen

Der Geschmack der Kirsche

Lumière and Company

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and (3) no more than three takes. The results run the gamut from Zhang Yimou's convention-thwarting joke to David Lynch's bizarre miniature epic.

Quer durch den Olivenhain

Im erdbebenzerstörten Norden des Irans versucht eine Filmcrew, einen Spielfilm zu drehen. Der Laie Hossein, ein Maurer, soll eine kleine Rolle übernehmen. Zu seiner Partnerin wird zufällig jenes Mädchen ausgewählt, in das er unsterblich verliebt ist. Leider wurden seine heißen Gefühle von Farkhonde bisher nicht erwidert. Hossein ist nämlich ein armer Schlucker, der weder Haus noch Vermögen besitzt. Doch aufgrund seiner frischerworbenen Position im geplanten Film schöpft Hossein wieder ...

Und das Leben geht weiter

Im Juni 1990 zerstört ein Erdbeben den Norden des Iran. Kurze Zeit danach begibt sich ein Filmregisseur mit seinem Sohn in die Gegend. Er ist auf der Suche nach den jungen Darstellern seines dort gedrehten ersten Films. Auf der langen Fahrt lernen sich Vater und Sohn besser kennen. Die Reise wird zu einer Begegnung mit Ruinen, Leiden, Verzweiflung und Resignation, aber auch mit einer unglaublichen Kraft der Menschen dort, für die das Wichtigste ist, dass das Leben weitergeht...

Close-Up

This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves.

Wo ist das Haus meines Freundes?

Mohammad, Zweitklässler in einer iranischen Dorfschule, wird von seinem Lehrer ermahnt, die Hausaufgaben nicht auf lose Blätter, sondern in sein Heft zu schreiben. Sollte er dies ein weiteres Mal vergessen, drohe ihm der Schulverweis. Sein Banknachbar, der achtjährige Ahmad, hat versehentlich Mohammads Schulheft eingesteckt; als er das bemerkt, eilt er auf eigene Faust ins Nachbardorf. Er muss Mohammad finden, doch er verläuft sich, irrt umher.

The Report

The movie revolves around the life of a tax collector who is accused of taking bribes, and also has to deal with problems at home, including the suicide attempt of his wife.

Two Solutions for One Problem

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 Experience

A boy works for a photographer and falls in love with an upper class girl.