Through the Olive Trees (1994)

Essential Viewing

Iran/France

Feature Film
Original Title: زیر درختان زیتون
Writer/Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Cinematographers: Hossein Djafarian, Farhad Saba
Cast: Mohamad Ali Keshavarz, Farhad Kheradmand, Zarifeh Shiva, Hossein Rezai, Tahereh Ladanian

Kiarostami, further blurring the line between fact and fiction, directs his fictional alter ego, Keshavarz, directing his fictional alter ego, Kheradmand, on the set of And Life Goes on... (1991), in this final part of the Koker Trilogy, in which the making of a small, seemingly insignificant scene is documented in all its humanity-infused and surprisingly romantic detail – a brilliant masterpiece, boasting (perhaps) the greatest final scene in cinema history. Iain.Stott