“More than three decades after it was made, this landmark work defies classification—a portrait of young people caught between warring countries, attempting to have a typical childhood.” – Nadine Mamoon, Little White Lies

“Like Frederick Wiseman’s American documentary High School (1968), filmed two decades earlier in a country that would soon become one of Iran’s ideological nemeses, Homework questions not just how schooling works but what schooling is for. Wiseman does this by focusing on the processes of schooling, by observing the teachers as they teach and discipline the students. Kiarostami focuses instead on the effects of schooling, by provoking the students to reveal what they’ve learned or not—all while questioning his own role as a filmmaker, as the one doing the provoking.” – Kenta McGrath, Senses of Cinema

The synopsis is simple: “In this documentary, Iranian schoolboys complain about the amount of homework they have to do.” But what unfolds in Homework goes beyond simple summary; it’s a provocative and fascinating work of cinema that, as most of the finest non-fiction achievements do, transcends the conventions of documentary filmmaking to offer an account of a moment in time that bears the distinct imprint of the filmmakers behind it. It’s documentary as art, and essential viewing for anyone seeking out the most influential treasures from the depths of the cinema vaults.

In Persian, with English titles.

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