First Graders (1996)
- HD 1080
- Runtime: 85m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: fa
- Country: Iran
- Director: Abbas Kiarostami
- keywords: education, school
- Production_studio: Centre de l'éveil Intellectuel des Enfants et des Adolescents, Kanoon
- providers: Criterion Channel
- The First Graders is featured in the top rankings of 1996
- #12 in Top Documentary Movies of 1996
A documentary film about a boys school in Iran. The film shows numerous, funny and moving interviews of many different young pupils of this school summoned by their superintendent for questions of discipline. The man is not severe, but clever and fair. He teaches loyalty, fellowship and righteousness to these boys. Besides these interviews, we see scenes of this school’s quotidian life.