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First Graders is a film of genre Documentary directed by Abbas Kiarostami
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Add to a movie listFirst Graders (Persian: ...اولیها, Avalihā...) is a 1984 Iranian documentary feature film directed by Abbas Kiarostami, in which a hidden camera follows a group of first graders during a day at school.
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Une école primaire iranienne au milieu des années 1980. Dès qu’un conflit éclate, les élèves concernés sont envoyés dans le bureau du directeur qui les interroge de façon à ce qu’ils reconnaissent d’euxmêmes leur part de responsabilité, toujours selon le même cérémonial : interrogation, aveux, repentir.Comments
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Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentaire sur une personnalité
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Rating67%
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Origin Iran
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about children, Medical-themed films, Documentary films about health care, HIV/AIDS in film
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Homework (1989)
, 1h26Directed by Abbas Kiarostami, Jaime Humberto Hermosillo
Origin Iran
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about education
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The films consists almost exclusively of interviews with a number of pupils and two fathers of pupils at Shahid Masumi school who are asked to give their opinion on the traditional teaching practice of assigning homework. Issues such as some parents' illiteracy and their inability to help their children with the homework are raised. The children don't always succeed in hiding the more embarrassing aspects of their family life (corporal punishment, poverty, etc.).
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, 1h19Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
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Rating80%
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The Traveler (1992)
, 1h10Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about children, Sports films, Association football films
Rating74%
Qassem Julayi (Ghāsem Jolā'i), played by Hassan Darabi, is a football-obsessed 12-year-old in the small city of Malayer, who would rather compete in the alley of his impoverished neighborhood after school than do his homework. His illiterate mother constantly berates him, but Qassem has long since learned to invent excuses for his poor school performance. In one early scene, we see him arriving late to school after going out of his way to purchase a football fan magazine. He appears with a bandage around his head, feigning a toothache. A few moments later, Qassam's skeptical teacher spots the magazine and snatches it away (only to start reading it himself). The boy resolves to travel by himself to Tehran, a 150-mile bus ride away, to attend an important game. Bus fare, however, is 10 tomans. The penniless Qassem pilfers 5 tomans that his mother has hidden, but the next day she discovers the theft and promptly reports it to the school principal, who not only berates her for raising a "monster" but canes Qassem's hands for refusing to admit guilt. That afternoon, Qassem and his friend Akbar roam the storefront vendors, attempting to sell small items to raise funds, but find no takers. The friend suggests selling an uncle's old box camera, but Qassem rejects one offer and instead hatches the scheme of pretending to take pictures of younger kids after school, collecting 5 rials for each "sitting." In a famous sequence, he issues directions to his "subjects" while snapping photo after photo with the empty camera. Onscreen, we see a succession of children posing for portraits that will never materialize. Still lacking sufficient cash, Qassem resolves to sell his team's soccer ball and goals, even though they are group property. Finally he has collected enough for his journey.
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, 17minutesDirected by Abbas Kiarostami
Genres Drama
Themes Films about children, Vieillesse
Rating71%
Un vieil homme sourd se promène. Il n’hésite pas à couper le son de son appareil auditif lorsque l’environnement s’avère trop bruyant. Arrivé chez lui, il attend ses petites-filles qui doivent rentrer de l’école, mais il ne les entend pas sonner…
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, 1hDirected by Abbas Kiarostami
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Themes Films about children
Rating69%
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The Bread and Alley (1970)
, 10minutesDirected by Abbas Kiarostami
Genres Drama
Themes Films about children
Rating69%
Returning from an errand to buy bread, a boy finds a menacing dog blocking his way through the alley he must pass to get home. Frightened by the dog's barking, he asks various passers-by for help but no-one pays him any attention, and he must find a solution all by himself: he throws the dog a piece of bread and, while the animal is devouring it, he continues on his way home.
Brooklyn Castle (2012)
, 1h41Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about education, Films about children, Sports films, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about cities, Films about chess
Rating71%
Waiting for "Superman" (2010)
, 1h42Directed by Davis Guggenheim
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about education, Films about children, Documentary films about historical events, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about politics, Political films
Actors George Reeves
Rating73%
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