In 1990, an earthquake devastated the area around the farming village of Koker in Iran, killing 50,000 people, including 20,000 children. Abbas Kiarostami and his 11 year old son Bahman drove to Koker to try to find the two boys who acted in his film "Where is the Friend's House." When he later told an audience in Germany about the journey, someone suggested that he turn the story into a film and he began filming a short while later.
Both the director and his son are played by non-professional actors. The director was played by a man who worked as a financial consultant and his son was played by the son of the cinematographer of the film.
Considered the second film in director Abbas Kiarostami's Koker trilogy, after Where Is the Friend's House? (1987).
Was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.
This film is part of the Criterion Collection, spine #991.