A stretch of the great Meso - American Barrier Reef lies about 200 meters offshore, while Tulum National Park preserves tree - covered dunes and
scrubby forest on land for several km.
Formally, the film feels very much in the tradition of latter - day Iranian new - wave humanism, but tempered with a slightly more detached tone (Mortezai's dynamic but controlled camerawork — kudos to cinematographer Klemens Hufnagel — often favors behind - the - subject shots, following Ramasan as he stomps through
the scrubby forest / dumping ground near the flats, or crosses the busy, noisy playground to bring his sisters home).
Not exact matches
Scrubby vegetation, made up of grasses, ferns and fast - growing pioneer bushes and trees, was all that remained after the
forest had been stripped to allow tin mining and vegetable cultivation.
Lombok's topography varies tremendously, including lush mountainous
forests with plunging waterfalls, scenic coastlines of headlands interspersed with sweeping bays, empty beaches, flat rice fields and dry
scrubby hills, all looked over by volcanic Mt Rinjani.
Also, unlike the Amazon and Choco ecosystems where rainforests dominate, the vegetation in the llanos is
scrubbier and looks less like
forest (except along waterways).