Life And Nothing More
(Zendegi va digar hich)

Following the earthquake that devastated north-west Iran in June 1990, a filmmaker (Kiarostami’s alter ego) drives to the disaster zone. It was here that, some years earlier, he had made the film that brought him international acclaim, Where is the Friend’s Home? (1987). He now asks the question: “where are the young actors I filmed?” His search takes the form of an odyssey, from village to village, close to the fractured landscapes, to the courage and dignity of the survivors. Kiarostami reactivates the principles of neorealism (inserting the story into a documentary framework, having non-professional actors, recording one of his country’s historic moments), to chart, on the roads to Koker, a universal philosophical path. JL