A Time for Drunken Horses
Why this pick
Its spare, wintry Kurdish setting and documentary-like attention to children should resonate with Blackboards’ compassionate, physically demanding journey through a marginalized landscape.
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
Why this pick
Its spare, wintry Kurdish setting and documentary-like attention to children should resonate with Blackboards’ compassionate, physically demanding journey through a marginalized landscape.
Why this pick
Kiarostami shares Makhmalbaf’s patient, open-ended humanism: rural lives, landscape, and small encounters gradually become the drama rather than conventional plot mechanics.
Why this pick
From the same director, this is another lyrical, child-centered Iranian journey, using sensory detail and an unhurried observational style to find wonder amid economic hardship.
Why this pick
Its child’s-eye view of Tehran and delicate blending of realism with formal play echo Blackboards’ interest in how young people improvise freedom within difficult social circumstances.
Why this pick
A simple child’s errand becomes a vivid social cross-section through patient observation, humane encounters, and the same quietly suspenseful attention to everyday obstacles.
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01 / THE STORY
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

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