Director .................................. Screenplay ............................ Director of Photography ........ Sound .................................... Original music ........................ Producers ..............................

SAMIRA MAKHMALBAF MOHSEN MAKHMALBAF, SAMIRA MAKHMALBAF EBRAHIM GHAFORI BEHROZ SHAHAMAT MOHAMAD REZA DARVISHI MOHSEN MAKHMALBAF, MARCO MULLER A Makhmalbaf Film House (Iran)/ Fabrica Cinema (Italy) production in association with Raicinema, T Mark (Japan)

Starring ...................................

BAHMAN GHOBADI SAÏD MOHAMADI BEHNAZ JAFARI

Prix du Jury Cannes Film Festival 2000

Samira Makhmalbaf

Following her award winning debut film 'The Apple', Samira Makhmalbaf's second feature BLACKBOARDS firmly established the young director as one of the leading figures in the Iranian new wave when she became the youngest filmmaker to win the prestigious Prix du Jury at the Cannes Film Festival 2000, aged twenty.