Abbas Kiarostami

Homework

Homework

In Abbas Kiarostami’s second documentary feature about education, the filmmaker himself asks the questions, probing a succession of invariably cute first- and second-graders about their home situations and the schoolwork they must do there. It emerges that many parents are illiterate. Tellingly, many kids can define punishment (the corporal variety seems common) but not encouragement.

Film Info

  • Iran
  • 1989
  • 77 minutes
  • Color
  • 1.37:1
  • Persian

Available In

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

Homework
Cast
Babak Ahmadpour
Farhang Akhavan
Mohammad Reza Nematzadeh
Credits
Director
Abbas Kiarostami
Writer
Abbas Kiarostami
Cinematography
Ali Asghar Mirzaie
Cinematography
Farhad Saba
Cinematography
Iraj Safavi
Producer
Ali Reza Zarrin
Music
Mohammad Reza Aligholi
Editor
Abbas Kiarostami
Editor
Yavar Toorang

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