Rethink Rebuild Society invites you to a screening of the film:
Life and Nothing More (1992)
(Also known as ‘And Life Goes on’)
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
Followed by discussion
In Farsi with English subtitles
Friday 23 June 2023 at 7.30pm
Please arrive on time as the screening will start at 7.45pm exactly
Runtime 1 hour 35 minutes
Certificate PG
The film
A director and his son return to a region damaged by the 1990 earthquake, hoping to find the children who appeared in his film a few years earlier. While on their journey, they discover a resilient community pressing on in the face of tragedy.
Accompanied by his little boy, a film director from Tehran drives into the mountainous region of northern Iran, recently devastated by an earthquake that’s killed more than 35,000 people. He searches through various villages for two child actors who appeared in his previous film a few years before, but what he finds is more open-ended and mysterious: the resilience, and in some cases the surprising optimism, of people putting their lives back together, the beautiful landscapes, the alternating and overlapping viewpoints of the director and his son.
It's a film that denies even the most rudimentary of dramatic arcs: Nothing happens, and yet life erupts all around. (Sean Axmaker, Parallax View)
...an absolutely beautiful film from a filmmaker who knows how to capture the human spirit. (Wael Khairy, The Cinophile Fix)
