Directed by Abbas Kiarostami • 1994 • Iran
Starring Mohammad Ali Keshavarz, Farhad Kheradmand, Zarifeh Shiva
Abbas Kiarostami takes metanarrative gamesmanship to masterful new heights in the final installment of THE KOKER TRILOGY. Unfolding “behind the scenes” of AND LIFE GOES ON, this film traces the complications that arise when the romantic misfortune of one of the actors—a young man who pines for the woman cast as his wife, even though, in real life, she will have nothing to do with him—creates turmoil on set and leaves the hapless director caught in the middle. An ineffably lovely, gentle human comedy steeped in the folkways of Iranian village life, THROUGH THE OLIVE TREES peels away layer after layer of artifice as it investigates the elusive, alchemical relationship between cinema and reality.
Up Next in The Koker Trilogy
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Homework
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami • 1989 • Iran
In Abbas Kiarostami’s second documentary feature about education, the filmmaker himself asks the questions, probing a succession of invariably cute first- and second-graders about their home situations and the schoolwork they must do there. It emerges t...
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Abbas Kiarostami: Truths and Dreams
Directed by Jean-Pierre Limosin • 1994 • France
Starring Abbas KiarostamiThis documentary by Jean-Pierre Limosin was broadcast as the November 28, 1994, episode of the French television show “Cinéma, de notre temps.” Featuring footage of Abbas Kiarostami returning to the Koker region, it chroni...
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Ahmad Kiarostami on THE KOKER TRILOGY
In this interview, conducted in 2018, director Abbas Kiarostami's son Ahmad talks about the personal stories behind the films that make up THE KOKER TRILOGY.
