Released:
2000-09-01

Overview:
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?

Director:
Samira Makhmalbaf

Runtime:
1h 25min

Genre:
Drama, History, War

• Cast:
• 
  Said Mohamadi
  as
  Said
• 
  Behnaz Jafari
  as
  Halaleh
• 
  Bahman Ghobadi
  as
  Rebwar
• 
  Mohamad Karim Rahmati
  as
  Father
• 
  Rafat Moradi
  as
  Ribwar