Twenty years after The Traveler was made, Kiarostami's son filmed his father as he reunited with the film's child star, now in his 30s.
Direction
Bahman's camera holds uncomfortable truths about his father.
Acting
Hassan Darabi's adult face contains multitudes.
Director
Bahman Kiarostami
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The original The Traveler (1974) was Abbas Kiarostami's breakthrough, a devastating portrait of a boy who'll do anything to see a soccer match — including betray everyone who loves him.
This short quietly belongs to a wave of Iranian 'making-of' documentaries that interrogate cinema itself — see also Jafar Panahi's appearance here, before his own filmmaking ban.
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