Tonight’s Homework

    Mashgh-e emshab

    • Ashkan Nejati, Mehran Nematollahi
    • Iran
    • 2021
    • 78 min
    • World Premiere
    • Luminous, Focus: The Future Tense

    In Homework (1989), Abbas Kiarostami put questions to students at a public school: questions about homework, punishments, and dreams of the future. The result was a portrait of the generation that grew up during the Iran-Iraq war, trapped by uncertainty and a rigid upbringing.

    Now, some 30 years later, directors Ashkan Nejati and Mehran Nematollahi repeat Kiarostami’s questions and come to the conclusion that the school system and society itself have changed dramatically. The gulf between rich and poor has grown far wider, and that has become evident in the schools. Parents, many of whom are illiterate, are unable to help their young ones, or otherwise too busy with their careers to supervise homework. Any sense of interest or guidance is absent.

    Two now-adult subjects of Kiarostami’s film agree that there’s something fundamentally wrong with the way responsibilities get dumped on the shoulders of teachers. The only thing that’s unchanged is the way the children reply in the approved manner—yes, of course they’ve done their homework.

    In the Focus Program The Future Tense Kiarostami’s Homework is also screened.

    Credits

    • 78 min
    • color
    • DCP
    • Spoken languages: Farsi
    • Subtitles in: English
    Director
    Ashkan Nejati, Mehran Nematollahi
    Production
    Ashkan Nejati
    Co-production
    Mehran Nematollahi
    Cinematography
    Hamed Fereshteh Hakmat
    Editing
    Vahid Golestan

    IDFA history

    2021
    World Premiere
    Luminous
    Focus: The Future Tense

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