Bahman Kiarostami: Film director, cinematographer and film producer

And Life Goes On… was also the first of Kiarostami’s films centred around a car trip, a motif he would return to often in his career. The final film in the trilogy, Zīr-e darakhtān-e eyton (1994; Through the Olive Trees), is about an actor’s difficult romantic pursuit of a fellow actress during the filming of And Life Goes On….