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A filmmaker and his young son drive into the devastated aftermath of the real 1990 earthquake that killed roughly fifty thousand people in Iran, hoping to find out whether the two boys who starred in Where Is the Friend's House? survived. And Life Goes On blurs fiction and documentary so thoroughly it becomes hard to tell where the restaging ends and reality begins, continuing our Five Weeks of Abbas Kiarostami with a film about resilience that never tips into sentimentality - people getting married days after burying relatives, a man rigging a TV aerial in a tent camp just to catch the World Cup. Life, stubbornly, continuing. Jonathan Rosenbaum of the Chicago Reader called it in many ways the most beautiful and powerful Iranian film he'd seen, while The Criterion Collection described it as a quietly majestic ode to the best of the human spirit. Five Weeks of Abbas Kiarostami: And Life Goes On / Life and Nothing More (1992, Iran) Thursday, October 8 | Doors: 6PM | Film: 8PM | TicTic, Phnom Penh Free Entry & Popcorn - Arrive early for sofa, bed, or beanbag seating.