Abbas Kiarostami

Returning to the classroom after First Graders, Abbas Kiarostami interviews schoolboys, and just wait until you hear what tumbles from their mouths. Underneath a simple—and simply devastating—premise, Kiarostami unearths a maelstrom of suffering, indicating something rotten in the state of Iran.

This film tackles the question of its title, chronicles the best of filmmaking today, and proposes where cinema will go—and should go—in the future.