Samira Makhmalbaf was able to shoot this film with film stock left over from her father's film Die Stille (1998).
Samira Makhmalbaf makes her directorial debut at the tender age of just 17. She is not however the youngest director on record - that accolade belongs to Sydney Ling who was just 13 when he made Lex, the Wonder Dog (1973).
Included in IndieWire's list of the top 100 films of the 1990s.