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Blackboards

2000 · 1 h 28 min
Directed by Samira Makhmalbaf
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Cast

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Plot

Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students along the Iran-Iraq border.

Sinekatalog’s take

Samira Makhmalbaf's drama is poetic and bleak, with striking landscapes and simple parables about education and survival.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 6.8 / 10 (3,058 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.