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Blackboards | Takhte siah | Lavagne (2000)
Synopsis In Northern Iran, close to the Iraki border, a small group of persons walks painfully, carrying big blackboards on their backs. They are schoolmasters looking for pupils. Quite an utopian initiative in a war-torn region where people’s major concern is mere survival. At a crossroad, the schoolmasters have to separate in order to take shelter from a heavy bombing.
Among them is Reeboir who soon meets a group of child smugglers. He tries to teach them who to read and write. In another village, his colleague Saïd meets a group of elder people who try to return to their home village. He also meets a young widow.
He tries to teach her and to maker her understand his feelings… Samira Makhmalbaf ’s second film (after her award-winning Sib, The Apple) shows the excdeptional talent of a very young director, trained by her father Mohsen Makhmalbaf . Cast: Said Mohamadi, Behnaz Jafari , Bahman Ghobadi , Rafat Moradi, Mohamad Karim RahmatiCannes (In Competition): Jury Prize, Toronto (Contemporary World Cinema), AFI FEST (International Competition): Grand Jury Prize, Rotterdam , London (Film on the Square)
About this movie
Title: Blackboards | Takhte siah | Lavagne (2000)
Directed by: Samira Makhmalbaf
Date of birth: 15 February 1980 Teheran, Iran
Writing credits: Mohsen Makhmalbaf , Samira Makhmalbaf
Music: Mohammad-Reza Darvishi
Year: 2000
Country: Iran | Italy | Japan
Language: Farsi | Kurdish
Color: Color
Runtime: 100 min.
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