MSU Film Collective: BLACKBOARDS

MSU Film Collective: BLACKBOARDS

When:
February 28, 2019 @ 7:00 pm
2019-02-28T19:00:00-05:00
2019-02-28T19:15:00-05:00
Where:
B122 Wells Hall
619 Red Cedar Rd
East Lansing, MI 48824
USA
MSU Film Collective: BLACKBOARDS @ B122 Wells Hall | East Lansing | Michigan | United States

2/28 Blackboards (Samira Makhmalbaf, 2000)

Presented by Kaveh Askari

Itinerant Kurdish teachers Said (Said Mohamadi) and Reeboir (Bahman Ghobadi) find many uses for the blackboards they tote, some of which actually pertain to education. Others include doubling as a gurney to carry a sick man, as shields from the warfare along the Iran-Iraq border and as a dowry so Said can wed the widow Halaleh (Behnaz Jafari). When Halaleh’s son and a group of his peers tag along with Said and Reeboir, they try to impart their knowledge to the boys amid the surrounding chaos.