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Through the Olive Trees

Through the Olive Trees

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Abbas Kiarostami


  • Country: Iran/France
  • Year: 1994
  • Language: Persian
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  • Runtime: 103 min.

The indisputable central figure of the Iranian New Wave, Abbas Kiarostami's poetic combinations of documentary and fiction techniques explore how cinema changes, and is changed by, its interaction with the real world.

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screening times

    • Thursday October 21
    • 3:00:00 PM
    • Tiff Bell LightBox Cinema 4
    • Tuesday October 26
    • 6:30:00 PM
    • Tiff Bell LightBox 3

Note: indicates Premium Screening.

official description

The indisputable central figure of the Iranian New Wave, Abbas Kiarostami's poetic combinations of documentary and fiction techniques explore how cinema changes, and is changed by, its interaction with the real world. Taking place during a film shoot in a tiny village, Through the Olive Trees concerns the efforts of the director "Kiarostami" (played by the actor Farhad Kheradmand) to film a scene between two non-professional local actors, a poor and illiterate stonemason and the girl who recently spurned his proposal of marriage at the insistence of her family. As the girl continually refuses to speak to her still-persisting suitor, even in the context of acting, real life and cinematic life begin to merge, marvelously culminating in the film’s beautiful and mysterious final sequence.

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