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.