''The Bread and Alley'' (, ''Nān o Kūcheh'') is a 1970 Iranian

short film A short film is a film with a low running time. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of not more than 40 minutes including all credits". Other film o ...

directed and written by

Abbas Kiarostami Abbas Kiarostami ( ; 22 June 1940 – 4 July 2016) was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer, and film producer. An active filmmaker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in the production of over forty films, including s ...

. The ten-minute film was the first film directed by Kiarostami. Shot in

black and white Black-and-white (B&W or B/W) images combine black and white to produce a range of achromatic brightnesses of grey. It is also known as greyscale in technical settings. Media The history of various visual media began with black and white, ...

, the film tells the story of a little boy walking home with a loaf of bread who is confronted by a hungry dog, placing his safety at risk.

Plot

Returning from an errand to buy bread, a boy finds a menacing dog blocking his way through the alley he must pass to get home. Frightened by the dog's barking, he follows a man down the alley, but the man enters his own home, and the boy must find a solution all by himself: he throws the dog a piece of bread and, while the animal is devouring it, he continues on his way home, accompanied by the now friendly dog, who lies down outside his gate. Afterwards, another boy with a bowl of yogurt encounters the same dog, who again starts barking. The viewer is left to reflect that the solution which worked for the first boy cannot be applied by the second boy. This is how Kiarostami shows the unique experience of each person.

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* 1970 films Iranian short films Iranian black-and-white films Films directed by Abbas Kiarostami Films set in Iran 1970s Persian-language films {{short-film-stub

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