Directed by Abbas Kiarostami • 1989 • Iran
In Abbas Kiarostami’s second documentary feature about education, the filmmaker himself asks the questions, probing a succession of invariably cute first- and second-graders about their home situations and the schoolwork they must do there. It emerges that many parents are illiterate. Tellingly, many kids can define punishment (the corporal variety seems common) but not encouragement.
Up Next in The Koker Trilogy
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Abbas Kiarostami: Truths and Dreams
Directed by Jean-Pierre Limosin • 1994 • France
Starring Abbas KiarostamiThis documentary by Jean-Pierre Limosin was broadcast as the November 28, 1994, episode of the French television show “Cinéma, de notre temps.” Featuring footage of Abbas Kiarostami returning to the Koker region, it chroni...
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Ahmad Kiarostami on THE KOKER TRILOGY
In this interview, conducted in 2018, director Abbas Kiarostami's son Ahmad talks about the personal stories behind the films that make up THE KOKER TRILOGY.
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Jamsheed Akrami and Godfrey Cheshire ...
In 2018, the Criterion Collection recorded this conversation between scholar Jamsheed Akrami and critic Godfrey Cheshire on the subject of Abbas Kiarostami's KOKER TRILOGY, its importance to the New Iranian Cinema, and whether it can properly be called a trilogy at all.
