Active preservation and educational programs designed to keep the spirit of poetic inquiry alive.
Negah — Persian for gaze — is a curated collection of personal letters: written by invitation, open to all to read.
The 3rd Koker International Short Film Festival — organized with the Kiarostami Foundation — comes to Klick Kino, Berlin, 1–3 July 2026.
Argentine director Lisandro Alonso is making a Portuguese-language reimagining of Kiarostami’s Taste of Cherry, with Wagner Moura in the role originated by Homayoun Ershadi.
Seventeen of Kiarostami’s early Kanoon-era shorts and features, collected in Criterion’s Eclipse series.
Homayoun Ershadi, who made his unforgettable screen debut as Mr. Badii in Kiarostami’s Palme d’Or–winning Taste of Cherry, has died at the age of 78.
Kiarostami’s The Wind Will Carry Us, in a new 4K restoration from Criterion.
More than twenty of Kiarostami’s films — features, documentaries, and Kanoon-era shorts — are available to stream on the Criterion Channel.
The first American museum retrospective of Kiarostami’s art since 2016 — films, photographs, installations, and video — organized with the Kiarostami Foundation.
The Centre Pompidou in reopening its doors with an exhibition and a retrospective of Abbas Kiarostami in Paris from May 29 to July 26, 2021.
The Palme d’Or–winning Taste of Cherry, newly restored in 4K by Criterion.
Where Is the Friend’s House?, And Life Goes On, and Through the Olive Trees — newly restored in a single Criterion box set.
Film critic Godfrey Cheshire gathers his 1990s interviews with Abbas Kiarostami into a film-by-film account, with a foreword by Ahmad Kiarostami.
Culturistan is a residency program brings together thinkers and creators from across the globe, founded on the belief that the exchange of diverse ideas is essential to finding innovative ways to meaningfully impact the world around us.
Kiarostami’s final film — twenty-four animated vignettes bridging photography and cinema — joins the Criterion Collection.
At the time of the director’s death in 2016, work on this intimate and elegiac film was mostly, though not entirely, complete. Ahmad, Abbas Kiarostami’s son, helped finished the film and it was released as a co-production of CG Cinema and Kiarostami Foundation.
A multi-year initiative to digitally restore Abbas Kiarostami's filmography and ensure its preservation for future generations.
An errant soccer ball, deserted back stairways worn by time, and a few animal observers — the unusual protagonists of Kiarostami's enchanting visual farewell to the silver screen.
An online streaming service focused on showcasing documentaries from or about Iran.
