Blackboards (2000)

movie

(2904)

Country: Iran, Italy, Japan
Genres: Drama, War
Release: 2000-09-01
Director: Samira Makhmalbaf
Writers: Mohsen Makhmalbaf , Samira Makhmalbaf , Zaheer Qureshi
Language: Persian | Kurdish
Stars: Said Mohamadi , Behnaz Jafari , Bahman Ghobadi , Mohamad Karim Rahmati , Rafat Moradi , Mayas Rostami , Saman Akbari , Ahmad Bahrami , Mohamad Moradi , Karim Moradi
Runtime: 88 min
Awards: 3 wins & 3 nominations
AKA: Le tableau noir (Canada) , Die schwarze Tafel (Germany) , Blackboards (United States of America) , Liitutaulut (Finland) , Школьные доски (Russian Federation) , Kara tahta (Turkey) , The Blackboard , O Quadro Negro (Brazil) , Schwarze Tafeln (Germany) , Pizarrones (Argentina) , The Blackboard (United Kingdom) , Lavagne (Italy) , Fekete tábla (Hungary) , Le tableau noir (France, French Republic) , La pizarra (Spain) , Tavler (Norway) , Takhté siah , Blackboards (Canada) , O Quadro Negro (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , The Blackboard (United States of America) , Takhté siah (Iran) , Školska tabla (Serbia) , ブラックボード　背負う人 (Japan) , Tablice (Poland)
Plot: 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:tt0246266