In Rug, a guided tour of a unique Persian carpet, a close-up of the delicate "spine" of a tree branches out into the discovery of a fantastical world. Birth of Light observes as dawn breaks over the mountains in Japan. The rarely screened 1977 short Jahan-Nama Palace documents the complete restoration of one of the Shah's traditional residencies. Roads of Kiarostami. begins as an unassuming introduction to Kiarostami's landscape photography and turns into a poetic—then frightening—tour of motion and stasis, photos and dogs, beauty and destruction, led by the auteur himself.

• Rug (a.k.a. Carpet) (Iran, 2006, 10 mins, In Farsi with written English translation, DVD, Courtesy of the Iranian Art Foundation). Birth of Light (Tavalod-e noor) (Japan, 1997, 5 mins, No dialogue, Color, 16mm, From Marie-Do de la Patelliere). Jahan-Nama Palace (Kakh-e Jahan-Nama) (Iran, 1977, 30 mins, In Farsi with English subtitles, Beta SP, From Mrs. Manijeh Perrot). Roads of Kiarostami (Iran, 2005, 32 mins, In Farsi with English subtitles, DVCam, Courtesy of the Iranian Art Foundation).

(Total running time: 77 mins, Color)