Blackboards

  • Release Date: 2000-09-01
  • Runtime: 1Hours 25Minutes
  • Language: Kurdish, Persian.
  • Director: Samira Makhmalbaf.
  • Production Companies: Fabrica , Makhmalbaf Film House Productions Makhmalbaf Film House Productions, RAI Cinema RAI Cinema, T-Mark .
  • 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?

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