Through the Olive Trees

Sunday, January 4 - Thursday, January 8, 2026

Special Events

  • Sun Jan 4 : 

    Screening at 11:30 followed by a panel of critics & scholars, moderated by Godfrey Cheshire

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  • Mon Jan 5 : 

    Q&A with dir. Jafar Panahi after the 6:00 show

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SHOWTIMES AT IFC CENTER

Sunday, January 4 at 11:30: The screening will be followed by a panel moderated by Godfrey Cheshire featuring Jamsheed Akrami, historian and writer Arash Azizi, critic Leslie Camhi and film professor Richard Peña.  Your ticket to the screening doubles as a ticket to the following panel.

Monday, January 5 at 6:00: The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Jafar Panahi

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 actors — a young man who pines for the woman cast as his wife, even though, in real life, she will have nothing to do with him — creates 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.

Screening as part of PANAHI & KIAROSTAMI: TWO MASTERS

Previously screened in 2019 as part of Abbas Kiarostami: A Retrospective.

See more and save! Get a Panahi & Kiarostami Ticket Pack  ($30 for IFC Center members and $45 for non-members). Ticket packs are good for any three screenings in the series.

 

 

  • Country Iran
  • Language In Persian/Farsi with English subtitles.
  • Year 1994
  • Running Time 104 minutes
  • Format DCP
  • Distributor Janus
  • Director Abbas Kiarostami
  • Cast Hossein Rezai, Farhad Kheradmand, Mohamad Ali Keshavarz
  • Accessibility Assistive Listening, T-Coil

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