Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Country: Iran
Award: none
Movement: Iranian New Wave
In the wake of the devastating 1990 earthquake in Iran that claimed around fifty thousand lives, Abbas Kiarostami returned to the village of Koker, turning his camera toward both the destruction and the vibrant life that emerged afterward. Merging fiction with reality in a moving and gently humorous road film, And Life Goes On follows a director and his son as they travel through the region searching for the young actors from Where Is the Friend’s House?, hoping to learn whether they survived. Along the way, they encounter a community marked by loss yet defined by resilience. By uncovering moments of grace amid devastation, Kiarostami creates a restrained and powerful tribute to the enduring strength of the human spirit.
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