Koker Trilogy in order

A series of films set in the rural northern-Iranian town of Koker. Poised delicately between fiction and documentary, comedy and tragedy, the lyrical fables in The Koker Trilogy exemplify both the gentle humanism and the playful sleight of hand that define the director’s sensibility. With each successive film, Kiarostami takes us deeper into the behind-the-scenes “reality” of the film that preceded it, heightening our understanding of the complex network of human relationships that sustain both a movie set and a village. The result is a gradual outward zoom that reveals the cosmic majesty and mystery of ordinary life. 3 films, 4h 42m in all, in release order.

1. 1
   

   Where Is The Friend's House?

   1987 · 83 min

   An 8-year-old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school.

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2. 2
   

   And Life Goes On

   1992 · 95 min

   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.

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3. 3
   

   Through the Olive Trees

   1994 · 104 min

   When the actor in a scene for his film Life And Nothing More… has to quit, a film director casts another man for the part. However, complications arise since the man and the woman who was cast for the scene know each other.

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