Blackboards

    Blackboards
    2000

    Synopsis

    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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    Cast

    • Said MohamadiSaid
    • Behnaz JafariHalaleh
    • Bahman GhobadiRebwar
    • Mohamad Karim RahmatiFather
    • Rafat MoradiRibvar
    • Mayas RostamiYoung boy storyteller
    • Saman AkbariGroup leader
    • Ahmad BahramiMarriage registrar
    • Mohamad MoradiMatch maker
    • Karim MoradiOld man

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