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Blackboards (2000)

Blackboards (2000)

Drama History War
Release Date: 2000, September 1
Directors: Samira Makhmalbaf
Countries: Iran, Italy, Japan
Production: Fabrica, Makhmalbaf Film House Productions, RAI Cinema, T-Mark
Cast: Behnaz Jafari, Said Mohamadi, Rafat Moradi, Mohamad Karim Rahmati, Mayas Rostami, Saman Akbari, Karim Moradi, Hassan Mohamadi, Rasool Mohamadi, Somaye Veisee

Overview:

Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the Iran-Iraq war. Said falls in with a group of old men looking for their bombed-out village; he offers to guide them, and takes as his wife Halaleh, the clan's lone woman, a widow with a young son. Reeboir attaches himself to a dozen pre-teen boys weighed down by contraband they carry across the border; they're mules, always on the move. Said and Reeboir try to teach as their potential students keep walking. Danger is close; armed soldiers patrol the skies, the roads, and the border. Is there a role for a teacher? Is there hope?

Keywords:

woman director poverty society teacher kurd iran-iraq war blackboard