Keyword: iranian new wave

Where Is My Friend's House?

8.1

1987

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Eight-year-old Ahmed has mistakenly taken his friend Mohammads notebook. He wants to return it, or else his friend will be expelled from school. The boy determinedly sets out to find Mohammads home in the neighbouring village.

The House Is Black

8

1963

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Set in a leper colony in the north of Iran, The House is Black juxtaposes ugliness, of which there is much in the world as stated in the opening scenes, with religion and gratitude.

Blackboards

7

2000

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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 clans 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; theyre 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?