In the aftermath of the 1990 earthquake in Iran that left 50 thousand dead, Kiarostami returned to the village of Koker, where he surveys not only devastation but also the teeming life in the disaster’s wake. Blending fiction and reality into a playful, poignant road movie, And Life Goes On follows a film director (an actor playing Kiarostami) who, along with his son, makes the trek to the region in hopes of finding out if the boys who acted in Where Is the Friend’s House? are among the survivors. Finding beauty and resilience in the bleakest of circumstances, this is a quietly majestic ode to the best of the human spirit.