Blackboards

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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  • Release Date: 2000-09-01
  • Runtime: 1h 25min
  • Director: Samira Makhmalbaf

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Cast

  • Said Mohamadi

    Said

  • Behnaz Jafari

    Halaleh

  • Bahman Ghobadi

    Rebwar

  • Mohamad Karim Rahmati

    Father

  • Rafat Moradi

    Ribwar

  • Mayas Rostami

    Young boy storyteller

  • Saman Akbari

    Group leader

  • Ahmad Bahrami

    Marriage registrar

  • Mohamad Moradi

    Match maker

  • Karim Moradi

    Old man

  • Hassan Mohamadi

    Child

  • Rasool Mohamadi

    The boy porter

  • Somaye Veisee

    Little girl

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