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Up Next in Abbas Kiarostami’s Childhood Films

  • The Bread and Alley

    Directed by Abbas Kiarostami • 1970 • Iran
    Starring Reza Hashemi, Mehdi Shahravanfar

    “The mother of all my films,” according to Abbas Kiarostami, starts out as a breezily observed anecdote about a boy wending his way home through Tehran alleys carrying a loaf of bread. Variations on both the boy...

  • Breaktime

    Directed by Abbas Kiarostami • 1972 • Iran
    Starring Sirous Hassanpour

    Disciplined at school for breaking a window, a boy joins throngs of his schoolmates as they make a cacophonous exit into Tehran’s streets. He then briefly joins an impromptu soccer game but disrupts it by stealing the ball and...

  • Experience

    Directed by Abbas Kiarostami • 1973 • Iran
    Starring Parviz Naderi, Hossein Yarmohammadi, Andre Govalovish

    Based on a story by Amir Naderi, who also cowrote the film, this slice of a fourteen-year-old boy’s life follows his efforts to fend for himself in the big city, working as a tea server and ...