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Through the Olive Trees
Wed Jan 16, 7:00 PM
Cinephiles Film Club
Through the Olive Trees (1994) - Iranian Movies Month.

FREE EVENT

Through the Olive Trees - It is the final part of Kiarostami's Koker trilogy, and the plot revolves around the production of the second film; And Life Goes On..., which itself was a revisitation of the first film - Where Is the Friend's Home?.

#The Koker trilogy is a series of three films directed by acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami: Where Is the Friend's Home? (1987), And Life Goes On (a.k.a. Life and Nothing More, 1992) and Through the Olive Trees (1994).#

Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Run Time: 103 mins

Accolades: * Was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival. It won the Espiga de Oro at the 1994 Seminci in Valladolid.
* In the 2012 Sight & Sound poll, six critics and four directors ranked Through the Olive Trees one of the 10 greatest films ever made.
* The film was selected as the Iranian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 67th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

Introduction - 10 mins
The movie starts at 7:10 PM
20 minutes post-screening discussion