Blackboards (2000)
- Original title
- تخته سياه
- Directed by
- Samira Makhmalbaf
- Genre
- drama film, war film
- Country
- Iran, Italy, Japan
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Rated
- All
- Rating
- 6.7 of 10 from 41 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
After a chemical attack, a group of Kurdish refugees struggle to survive while crossing harsh mountains. A band of traveling teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, try to find students and offer lessons amid the chaos of war.
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What happens
Blackboards (Persian: تخته سیاه, Takhté siah; Kurdish: تەختێ رەش, romanized: Textê Reş) 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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