Abbas Kiarostami

First Graders

First Graders

Inspired by his work at Kanoon and his own sons’ schooling, the first of Abbas Kiarostami’s two documentary features about education looks in on a schoolyard of chanting, playful boys but mainly transpires in the office of a supervisor who has to deal with latecomers and discipline problems. You can almost see the boys’ personalities forming in their first encounters with authorities and peers outside the home.

Film Info

  • Iran
  • 1984
  • 84 minutes
  • Color
  • 1.37:1
  • Persian

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Collector's Set

Eclipse Series 47: Abbas Kiarostami—Early Shorts and Features

Eclipse Series 47: Abbas Kiarostami—Early Shorts and Features

Blu-ray Box Set

3 Discs

$55.96

First Graders
Credits
Director
Abbas Kiarostami
Writer
Abbas Kiarostami
Cinematography
Homayun Payvar
Producer
Fathola Dalili
Editor
Abbas Kiarostami

Current

Abbas Kiarostami’s Early Shorts and Features: Poetic Solutions to Philosophical Problems
Abbas Kiarostami’s Early Shorts and Features: Poetic Solutions to Philosophical Problems

Though the first two decades of the Iranian filmmaker’s career have long been underappreciated, this fertile period yielded philosophical and restlessly innovative works that reinvigorated both documentary and narrative-fiction cinema.

By Ehsan Khoshbakht