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Blackboards (1999)

Blackboards (, 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 (1980-1988). 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."

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Director: Samira Makhmalbaf
Distributor: Artificial Eye (UK)
Leisure Time Features (USA)
Wellspring Media (US DVD)
Release date: January 1, 1999
Running time: 85 minutes

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