Abbas Kiarostami’s Life and Nothing More… is the 2nd film of the Koker Trilogy. In this film, an alter ego of Kiarostami Farhad Kheradmand sets out for Koker by car with his adolescent son Pouya in search of the young actors featured in the first film of the Koker Trilogy Where Is the Friend’s Home?, …
Through the Olive Trees is the third and final film of Abbas Kiarostami’s Koker trilogy. Like the other two films of the trilogy – Where Is the Friend’s Home? and Life and Nothing More, this film too is set in the village named Koker in Northern Iran. Like many of his films, Kiarostami portrays the …
Abbas Kiarostami’s Where Is the Friend’s Home? is a heart-touching story of a schoolboy who goes to his neighboring village to return his friend’s notebook so that he does not get expelled by the schoolteacher the next day. The film shows how efficiently a filmmaker can make a film based on children and highlight their …
Close-Up established great Abbas Kiarostami strongly as a major international filmmaker. It is based on a true story of a man named Hossain Sabzian who impersonated famous Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf and was arrested subsequently. Close-Up is based on the real-life trial of Hossain Sabzian. The film deals with important issues like personal identity, poverty, …