The Experience
Abbas Kiarostami
1973 | 53 min | B/W | Digital

Drawn from personal experiences and written by a key director of Iranian new cinema, Amir Naderi, this was Kiarostami’s first mid-length film."This story of a working-class adolescent, orphaned and impoverished, who works as an errand-boy in a photographer's studio and who falls in love with an older girl from a better-off family, becomes in Kiarostami's hands a real subversion of the 'rules' of a popular sub-genre of Iranian commercial cinema (poor girl loves rich girl). A world away from melodrama, The Experience is constructed using a series of dead times, which are the very devices that give the films its meaning and its poetry." – Alberto Elena

A Suit for the Wedding
Abbas Kiarostami
1976 | 56 min | Colour | Digital

Two young boys ask a friend who works in a tailor's shop to let them wear a new suit especially tailored for a rich man's son, while the shop owner's away. Alberto Elena calls the film a “daring in its treatment of poverty and the breakdown between social classes, more than any other Kiarostami film with the possible exception of The Experience."

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Part of our Abbas Kiarostami season