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Title: Eclipse Series 47: Abbas Kiarostami—Early Shorts and Features (The Criterion Collection)
Condition: New
Format: Blu-ray
Type: Blu-ray
EAN: 0715515316613
Release Date: 18/11/2025
Description: Long before he became one of the most renowned artists in world cinema, the great Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami began his cinematic career at Tehran’s Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (a.k.a. Kanoon), where he honed his distinctive style and themes. During his first decades as a filmmaker, Kiarostami moved freely among documentary, narrative, and even animation, and between joyous short films made for children and subtle works exploring the struggles of adolescents. Often using the classroom as a laboratory, he probed social and political tensions in Iranian society during the turbulent years before and after the 1979 revolution. Spanning his very first short, Bread and Alley (which the director called the “mother of all my films”); other underseen early revelations, like Experience and The Traveler; and nonfiction masterpieces such as Homework, the graceful, warm, and playful works collected here find moments of transcendent poetry within everyday life, and use deceptively simple premises to express universal truths about the human condition.

INCLUDES

* The films: Bread and Alley; Breaktime; Experience; The Traveler; Two Solutions for One Problem; So Can I; Colors; A Wedding Suit; Tribute to Teachers; Solution No. 1; First Case, Second Case; Toothache; Orderly or Disorderly; The Chorus; Fellow Citizen; First Graders; and Homework
* PLUS: An essay by critic Ehsan Khoshbakht
Studio: The Criterion Collection
Actor: Abbas Kiarostami
Certificate: Unrated
No Of Discs: 3
Run Time: 9 hours and 53 minutes
Region Code: Blu-ray: A (Americas, Southeast Asia...)
Type: Blu-ray
Release Year: 2025

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