Blackboards

Blackboards

Infobox Film
name = Blackboards


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director = Samira Makhmalbaf
producer =
writer = Mohsen Makhmalbaf Samira Makhmalbaf
narrator =
starring = Said Mohamadi
music = Mohammad Reza Darvishi
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distributor = Artificial Eye (UK)
Leisure Time Features (USA)
Wellspring Media (US DVD)
released = flagicon|USA 25 October, 2000
runtime = 85 min.
country = flagicon|Iran Iran flagicon|Italy Italy flagicon|Japan Japan
language = Kurdish
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"Blackboards" ( _fa. Takhté siah) 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. [cite web |url=http://www.makhmalbaf.com/persons.php?p=4|title= Makhmalbaf Film House: Samira] cite web |url=http://www.makhmalbaf.com/movies.php?m=18|title= Samira's Interview with Haghighat for the movie The Blackboard / English|accessdate=2008-07-19 ] 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 hole, is a metaphor."

The film was an international co-production between the Makhmalbaf Productions of Iran, the Italian companies Fabrica and Rai Cinemafiction and the Japanese company T-Mark.

Cast

* Said Mohamadi as Said
* Behnaz Jafari as Halaleh
* Bahman Ghobadi as Reeboir
* Mohamad Karim Rahmati as Father
* Rafat Moradi as Ribvar

Awards

* "Jury prize", Official Competition section of Cannes Film Festival 2000, France.
* "Federico Fellini Honor", UNESCO, Paris, 2000.
* "Francois Truffaut prize", Giffoni Film Festival in Italy 2000.
* "Giffoni's Mayor Prize", Giffoni Film Festival, Italy, 2000.
* "Special cultural Prize", UNESCO, Paris, 2000.
* "The Grand Jury prize", American Film Institute, USA, 2000

References

External links

*imdb title|0246266|Blackboards

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title=Jury Prize, Cannes
years=2000
tied with "Songs from the Second Floor"
before="The Letter"
after=No award 2001
"Divine Intervention" (2002)


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