Blackboards

For other uses, see Blackboard (disambiguation).

Blackboards
Directed by	Samira Makhmalbaf
Written by	Mohsen Makhmalbaf Samira Makhmalbaf
Starring	Said Mohamadi
Music by	Mohammad Reza Darvishi
Distributed by	Artificial Eye (UK) Leisure Time Features (USA) Wellspring Media (US DVD)
Release date(s)	25 October 2000
Running time	85 minutes
Country	Iran Italy Japan
Language	Kurdish

Blackboards (Persian: تخته سیاه, 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. 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 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 the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, 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

External links

• Takhté siah at the Internet Movie Database

Awards
Preceded by The Letter	Jury Prize, Cannes 2000 tied with Songs from the Second Floor	Succeeded by No award 2001 Divine Intervention (2002)