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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 concealed camera follows a group of first graders during their day at school.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 short film challenging humankind on universal themes of stability versus chaos.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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 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...
- 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.
- When one boy tears another boy's book, it is up to the two of them to decide how to handle it.
- In this early short subject set in a school which uses some animation, the pupils are shown imitating the movements of other creatures.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- A youth short made by the director when he began his career doing work for the Iranian Children's cultural institute.
- 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.
- Children perform a puppet theatre version of the fairytale of "The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats". They identify so strongly with their roles that the boundaries between acting and real life begin to blur. In restrained colours, the drawn animation shifts between these levels. For the boy who plays the big bad wolf the performance ends in an emotional borderline experience. This film is based on a collection of poetry by the Iranian children's and youth book writer Afsaneh Shaban-nejad.
- Ten-year-old Gholamreza, who lives in a village in northern Iran, needs a bicycle to win a bicycle race and pay off his father's debt. To get money for the new bicycle, he notices a prize for teaching an illiterate person how to read and write, but there aren't any illiterate people in the village except a 90-year-old bad tempered woman who does not want to learn anything.
- 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 documentary about the restoration and change of the interior architecture of Jahan Nama Palace
- A lonely old man takes to terrorizing the kids who build a football pitch next to his house.
- 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 teacher trying to reach a remote village is attacked by wolves..
- The story is about two poor boy's search for their father through a "Journey" from downtown to uptown.
- The boys of the neighborhood are dividing into two groups to run a kite. The first groups are watching the kite happily but the other group try to take it down. The kite is flew away but the sorrow of that only leads the boys of the two groups to befriend each other.