After the earthquake of Guilan, a film director and his son travel to the devastated area to search for the actors from the movie the director made there a few years previously. In their search, they see how people who have lost everything in the earthquake still have hope and try to live life to the fullest.
Direction
Kiarostami blurs documentary and fiction until neither matters.
Writing
Conversations that feel overheard, not scripted.
Cinematography
Dust, rubble, and sudden bursts of overwhelming green.
Director
Abbas Kiarostami
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 1990 Manjil-Rudbar earthquake killed 35,000 people. Kiarostami was there weeks later, camera in hand, before anyone asked if he should be.
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