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What is Blackboards about?

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?

Genres: Drama, History, War
Released: 2000-09-01
Director: Samira Makhmalbaf
Rating: ★ 6.7 / 10

Top cast

Said Mohamadi Said
Behnaz Jafari Halaleh
Bahman Ghobadi Rebwar
Mohamad Karim Rahmati Father
Rafat Moradi Ribwar
Mayas Rostami Young boy storyteller

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