Directed by Abbas Kiarostami

Poised delicately between fiction and documentary, the poignant, self-reflexive films of Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami illuminate complex human truths with elegant and playfully deceptive simplicity. Beginning his career at the Institute for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults in Tehran, he created a string of films in which he used the small, relatable struggles of children to explore major ideas about society and ethics—culminating in his international breakthrough WHERE IS THE FRIEND’S HOUSE? the first installment (along with AND LIFE GOES ON and THROUGH THE OLIVE TREES) in what would become known as THE KOKER TRILOGY. With these films, he began to increasingly blur the boundaries between narrative and nonfiction—a strategy he would take to new heights in masterpieces like CLOSE-UP and the Palme d’Or–winning TASTE OF CHERRY, which firmly established him as one of world cinema’s most perceptive chroniclers of the human condition.