Blackboards (2000)
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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Writing:
Stars:
- Samira Makhmalbaf
Writing:
- Mohsen Makhmalbaf
- Samira Makhmalbaf
- Zaheer Qureshi
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Release Date: 2000-09-01
6.7/10
6.7/10
- Country: IR, IT, JP
- Language: فارسی
- Runtime: 85
