Blackboards
- Released on
- Runtime
- 85 mins
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?
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?
Cast
- Said Mohamadi
- Behnaz Jafari
- Bahman Ghobadi
- Mohamad Karim Rahmati
- Rafat Moradi
- Mayas Rostami
- Saman Akbari
- Ahmad Bahrami
- Mohamad Moradi
- Karim Moradi
- Hassan Mohamadi
- Rasool Mohamadi
- Somaye Veisee
- Emre Tetikel
Director
- Samira Makhmalbaf
Producers
- Shozo Ichiyama
- Mohsen Makhmalbaf
- Marco Mueller