The following introduction by critic Godfrey Cheshire—whose latest book is “In the Time of Kiarostami”—was recorded in 2022.
Up Next in Abbas Kiarostami’s Childhood Films
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The Traveler
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami • 1974 • Iran
Starring Hassan Darabi, Pare Gol AtashjamehAbbas Kiarostami’s first feature focuses on a boy in a provincial city so avid to get to Tehran to see a soccer match that he’ll lie to adults and cheat other kids. A quest film that’s also a study of youthful...
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First Graders
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami • 1984 • Iran
Inspired by his work at Kanoon and his own sons’ schooling, the first of Abbas Kiarostami’s two documentary features about education looks in on a schoolyard of chanting, playful boys but mainly transpires in the office of a supervisor who has to deal w...
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Where Is the Friend’s House?
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami • 1987 • Iran
The first film in Abbas Kiarostami’s sublime, interlacing KOKER TRILOGY takes a simple premise—a boy searches for the home of his classmate, whose school notebook he has accidentally taken—and transforms it into a miraculous, child’s-eye adventure of ...
