Short film
The School That Was Blown Away
1998 · 8 min
A quiet, plain-spoken short that observes a rural classroom with gentle curiosity and a touch of dry warmth.
- Directed by
- Mohsen Makhmalbaf
- Starring
- Abbas Sayah
- Overview
- A rural Iranian school is conducted in a tent. A man, apparently a school inspector, visits the class and asks the students to answer several questions. The man then explains that he is merely a passerby who wanted to know about the school. The teacher then asks a student to tell the man about the time the wind blew the school away.
- How it feels
- Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Education, isolation, survival
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Mohsen Makhmalbaf
- Starring
- Abbas Sayah