

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?
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- Language
- FA
- society
- teacher
- poverty
- blackboard
- woman director
- kurd
- iran-iraq war
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United StatesUS
- PremiereAFI Film Festival25 Oct 2000
- Theatrical (limited)6 Dec 2002
FranceFR
- PremiereCannes Film Festival11 May 2000
- Theatrical11 Oct 2000
ItalyIT
- Theatrical1 Sept 2000
South KoreaKR
- TheatricalAll14 Nov 2003
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Blackboards was released on 1 September 2000.
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CRCulver
9/13/2018
Released in 2000, <i>Blackboards</i> was the second film by Samira Makhmalbaf, daughter of acclaimed Iranian auteur Mohsen Makhmalbaf and a precocious director in her own right. As the film opens, a group of itinerant teachers lug blackboards into the mountains of Iranian Kurdistan, seeking to bring education to this illiterate, impoverished region in exchange for some meagre income. Two of the teachers quickly br…
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