---
title: 'Blackboards (2000)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Samira Makhmalbaf'
released: '2000-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 85
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'War'
countries:
  - 'Iran'
  - 'Italy'
  - 'Japan'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/blackboards-2000'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246266/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Blackboards (2000)

2000 · 85 min · Drama, War · Iran, Italy, Japan

Original title: تخته سیاه

## Synopsis

Blackboards 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."

## Credits

- **Director:** [Samira Makhmalbaf](https://cinepixo.com/people/samira-makhmalbaf)
- **Screenplay:** [Samira Makhmalbaf](https://cinepixo.com/people/samira-makhmalbaf), [Mohsen Makhmalbaf](https://cinepixo.com/people/mohsen-makhmalbaf)
- **Editor:** [Mohsen Makhmalbaf](https://cinepixo.com/people/mohsen-makhmalbaf)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Mohammad-Reza Darvishi](https://cinepixo.com/people/mohammad-reza-darvishi)

## Cast

- [Bahman Ghobadi](https://cinepixo.com/people/bahman-ghobadi)
- [Behnaz Jafari](https://cinepixo.com/people/behnaz-jafari)

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