Homework

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Legend
OCOpen Captioned
Special Content
35mm
SFSensory Friendly

Homework

In Kiarostami’s second documentary feature about education, he interviews a succession of invariably cute and appealing first- and second graders who steal the show. Tellingly, many kids can define “punishment” (the corporal variety seems common) but not “encouragement.” An eye-opening look at the education system in Iran, where, it emerges, many of the kids’ parents are illiterate.



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Opens 9/26—Preview Q&A with director and composer on 9/23

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