Blackboards

Blackboards

85 mins | Drama, War, History | Sept. 1, 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?

Blackboards

85 mins | Drama, War, History | Sept. 1, 2000

Blackboards
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?
IMDb rating 6.8
Producers RAI, Makhmalbaf Film House Productions, Fabrica
Original title تخته سياه
Directors Samira Makhmalbaf
Writers Samira Makhmalbaf, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Zaheer Qureshi

Cast

Said Mohamadi

as Said

Behnaz Jafari

as Halaleh

Bahman Ghobadi

as Rebwar

Rafat Moradi

as Ribvar

Mayas Rostami

as Young boy storyteller

Saman Akbari

as Group leader

Ahmad Bahrami

as Marriage registrar

Mohamad Moradi

as Match maker

Karim Moradi

as Old man

Hassan Mohamadi

as Child

Rasool Mohamadi

as The boy porter

Somaye Veisee

as Little girl

Emre Tetikel

as Zinhan