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Through the Olive Trees

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 actorsa young man who pines for the woman cast as his wife, even though, in real life, she will have nothing to do with himcreates 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. Description courtesy of Janus Films.

** Part of a larger Abbas Kiarostami retrospective co-presented with SIFF, NWFF and The Beacon Cinema. See their websites for more details. SIFF & NWFF members will receive Grand Illusion member ticket prices. **

Abbas Kiarostami / 1994, Iran-France
103min / digital