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IDFA 2021

Tonight’s Homework

Mashgh-e emshab
Ashkan Nejati, Mehran Nematollahi
Iran
2021
78 min
World Premiere
Festival history

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
Director
Cinematography
    Hamed Fereshteh Hakmat
    Hamed Fereshteh Hakmat
Editing
    Vahid Golestan
    Vahid Golestan
Sound
    Farid Pirayesh
    Farid Pirayesh
Sound Design
    Seyed Reza Godazar
    Seyed Reza Godazar
World Sales
    Iranian Independents
    Iranian Independents
Screening copy
    Iranian Independents
    Iranian Independents

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