Blackboards
Sign in to saveBlackboards (, Takhté siah; ) is a 2000 Iranian film directed by Samira Makhmalbaf. It focuses on a group of Kurdish refugees after the chemical bombing of Halabja by Saddam Hussein's Iraq during the Iran–Iraq War. The screenplay was co-written by Makhmalbaf with her father, Mohsen Makhmalbaf. The dialogue is entirely in Kurdish. Makhmalbaf describes it as "something between reality and fiction. Smuggling, being homeless, and people's efforts to survive are all part of reality... the film, as a whole, is a metaphor."
Film · TMDB
6.7Itinerant 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?
Released: 2000-09-0185 minDir: Samira MakhmalbafDrama, History, War
Cast
- Said Mohamadi as Said
- Behnaz Jafari as Halaleh
- Bahman Ghobadi as Rebwar
- Mohamad Karim Rahmati as Father
- Rafat Moradi as Ribwar
- Mayas Rostami as Young boy storyteller
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Ratings · OMDb
IMDb
6.8/10
2,997 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
74%
Metacritic
64/100
- Awards
- 3 wins & 3 nominations total
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Key facts
- Film.name
- Blackboards
- Film.image
- Blackboards_poster.jpg
- Film.director
- Samira Makhmalbaf
- Film.writer
- Mohsen MakhmalbafSamira Makhmalbaf
- Film.starring
- Said Mohamadi
- Film.music
- Mohammad-Reza Darvishi
- Film.runtime
- 85 minutes
- Film.language
- Kurdish
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Published
- 17 January 2002
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Participant in
- 2000 Cannes Film Festival
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- Italy
- Original language
- Persian
- Director
- Samira Makhmalbaf
- Screenwriter
- Mohsen Makhmalbaf
- Cast member
- Behnaz Jafari
- Composer
- Mohammad-Reza Darvishi
- Narrative location
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Blackboards (, Takhté siah; ) is a 2000 Iranian film directed by Samira Makhmalbaf. It focuses on a group of Kurdish refugees after the chemical bombing of Halabja by Saddam Hussein's Iraq during the Iran–Iraq War. The screenplay was co-written by Makhmalbaf with her father, Mohsen Makhmalbaf. The dialogue is entirely in Kurdish. Makhmalbaf describes it as "something between reality and fiction. Smuggling, being homeless, and people's efforts to survive are all part of reality... the film, as a whole, is a metaphor."
The film was an international co-production of the Makhmalbaf Productions of Iran, the Italian companies Fabrica and Rai Cinema, and the Japanese company T-Mark.