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245 00 Blackboards|h[videorecording]. 
260    [London, England] :|bArtificial Eye, :|bdistributed by 
       World Cinema Limited,|c2000. 
300    1 digital videodisc (82 min.) :|bsd., col. ;|c4 3/4 in. 
500    A Makhmalbaf Film House (Iran)/Fabrica Cinema (Italy) 
       production in association with Raicinema, T Mark (Japan). 
500    Awards: Jury Prize - Cannes Film Festival 2000. 
500    Special features included: The 'Making of ...' 
       documentary; production notes; theatrical trailer. 
500    Kurdish with English subtitles. 
508    Producers, Mosen Makhmalbaf, Marco Muller ; director, 
       Samira Makhmalbaf ; writers, Samira Makhmalbaf, Mosen 
       Makhmalbaf ; photography, Ebrahim Gafori ; music, Mohammad
       Reza Darvishi. 
520    Set on the border of Iran and Iraq during the war of the 
       1980s, 'Blackboards' follows a group of poor teachers, 
       blackboards strapped to their backs, as they attempt to 
       educate the Kurdish children who are some of the primary 
       victims of war. But the young children they approach, 
       largely orphaned and living in extreme poverty and 
       hardship, are too busy working as smugglers to be 
       convinced about the worth of education. Filmed in the 
       rugged mountainous terrain of Kurdistan, 'Blackboards' 
       uses the most economic means of mise-en-scene and editing 
       to create a powerful evocation of the terror of war. The 
       bonds between men and women and the sanctity of childhood 
       are all shown as precarious in a context where chemical 
       bombs and machine guns can destroy a whole community. 
       Samira Makhmalbaf was twenty-one when she won the Grand 
       Prix at Cannes with this film. The cast consists largely 
       of Kurdish refugees who at the time of writing this 
       catalogue entry (2001) still do not have a homeland of 
       their own. 
590    25.00 
650  0 Motion pictures, Iranian. 
650  0 Muslims|zKurdistan|vDrama. 
650  0 War|xPsychological aspects|vDrama. 
650  0 Feature films|zIran. 
651  0 Kurdistan|vDrama. 
700 1  Makhmalbaf, Mohsen. 
700 1  Makhmalb¯af, Sam¯ira,,|d1980- 
710 2  Makhmalbaf Film House. 
710 2  Artificial Eye. 
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