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?
- 6.6
- 2000
- Released
- 1h 25m
Said Mohamadi
Said
Behnaz Jafari
HalalehMohamad Karim Rahmati
FatherRafat Moradi
RibwarMayas Rostami
Young boy storytellerSaman Akbari
Group leaderKarim Moradi
Old manHassan Mohamadi
ChildRasool Mohamadi
The boy porterSomaye Veisee
Little girl
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- #society
- #teacher
- #poverty
- #blackboard
- #woman director
- #kurd
- #iran-iraq war
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