First Graders
A Close-up of Abbas Kiarostami
February 8 - 17, 2013
Due to print availability issues, First Graders and Solution No. 1 will be shown on DVD. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Disruptive students in an elementary school are sent to the principal’s office for the familiar cycle of questioning, confession, and repentance in Kiarostami’s typically sly, observant documentary about grade-school rituals. Screening with Solution No. 1
Due to print availability issues, First Graders and Solution No. 1 will be shown on DVD. We apologize for the inconvenience.
An Iranian elementary school in the mid-1980s: whenever a conflict breaks out, the students involved are sent to the principal, who questions them in order so that each may recognize his share of the blame. We follow the procession of students who’ve been caught being disruptive, fighting or calling each other names. The same ritual (questions, confession, repentance) is repeated with some variations and intercut by Kiarostami with another highly ritualized process: the daily 15 minutes of morning gymnastics!
Screening with:
Solution No. 1/Rah-e hal 1
Abbas Kiarostami | 1978 | Iran | DVD | 11m
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