Blackboards
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| Blackboards | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Samira Makhmalbaf |
| Written by | Mohsen Makhmalbaf Samira Makhmalbaf |
| Starring | Said Mohamadi |
| Distributed by | Artificial Eye (UK) Leisure Time Features (USA) Wellspring Media (US DVD) |
| Release date(s) | 25 October 2000 (USA) |
| Running time | 85 mins |
| Country | Iran/Italy/Japan |
Blackboards (Persian: Takht-e-siyah) 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.[1]
The film was an international co-production between the Makhmalbaf Productions of Iran, the Italian companies Fabrica and Rai Cinemafiction and the Japanese company T-Mark.
[edit] Awards
- "Jury prize", Official Competition section of Cannes Film Festival 2000, France.
- "Federico Fellini Honor", UNESCO, Paris, 2000.
- "Francois Truffaut prize", Giffoni Film Festival in Italy 2000.
- "Giffoni's Mayor Prize", Giffoni Film Festival, Italy, 2000.
- "Special cultural Prize", UNESCO, Paris, 2000.
- "The Grand Jury prize", American Film Institute, USA, 2000
[edit] External links
| Preceded by The Letter |
Jury Prize, Cannes 2000 tied with Songs from the Second Floor |
Succeeded by No award 2001 Divine Intervention (2002) |
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