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,...
Acclaimed director Abolfazl Jalili offers a compassionate story of the young Afghan refugee who lives illegally in Iran. 14-year-old Kaim drifts to the Delbaran crossing on the Afghan-Iran border, where he finds work at a coffee shop frequented by truck drivers. He feels at home in this small oasis...
Five years after Blackboard (2000) by Smira Makhmalbaf, in 2005, Whiteboard was released. It is directed by Fardin Batmani. This film tells the story of the negative impact of the Blackboards on the villagers in general and Said's social life in particular. It shows the realistic side of literate...
