Blackboards

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?

Discover

Mayas Rostami

Young boy storyteller

Saman Akbari

Group leader

Ahmad Bahrami

Marriage registrar

Mohamad Moradi

Match maker

Karim Moradi

Old man

Rasool Mohamadi

The boy porter

Somaye Veisee

Little girl

Crew

Ebrahim Ghafori

Cinematography

Directing

Editing

Production

Marco Mueller

Producer

Mohamad Ahmadi

Executive Producer

Abbas Saghazsaz

Associate Producer

Writing

Zaheer Qureshi

Story Supervisor

Crew

Ebrahim Ghafori

Cinematography

Directing

Editing

Production

Marco Mueller

Producer

Mohamad Ahmadi

Executive Producer

Abbas Saghazsaz

Associate Producer

Writing

Zaheer Qureshi

Story Supervisor