"Wind, Ruined the Schooll"
(Madresehei ke Baad Bord)
Screenwriter, Editor & Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Director of Photography: Mahmoud Kalari
Music: Hossein Alizadeh
Sound: Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
Still Photographer: Mohammad Ahmadi
Cast: Abbas Sayyahi, Mohammad-Hassan Karami, Abdollah Jahanpour, Tahmineh Jahanpour, Maryam Jahanpour, Marziyeh Jahanpour, Zahra Jahanpour, Afrasiab Jahanpour
1997, color, 8 min
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An old man enters a nomadic school. The teacher thought he would be an inspector from training & Educational Ministry, so let him ask some question from the class to obtain what the average I.Q. is. While he gets the students as witness that he didn’t steal the school’s tent and that was the wind’s fault. Then the old man tells him not to be an inspector but a teacher like him in times past and now came to the nomadic school just freshing his memories.
BIOGRAPHY:
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Born into a poor family in Tehran on May 29, 1957. He began to support his single mother since he was 8 and by the time he turned 17, he had worked as bellboy, plain worker and anything else he could find in the 13 jobs he went through.
A lower-class youngster in the poor southern districts of Tehran, Mohsen formed an under-ground Islamic militia group since he was 15 and by the time he was 17, he was shot and arrested while attempting to disarm a policeman. Expecting to remain in prison for much longer, he was released from prison shortly after the revolution in 1979. The 4½-year incarceration helped him to educate himself in various fields and gain focus on his outlooks on life and the Iranian society. This intellectual renaissance led him to distance himself from politics and find better satisfaction in Literature and the arts, especially Cinema. At this stage in his life, he strongly believed that the Iranian society suffers more from Cultural poverty than anything else.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf became a writer and filmmaker of the post-revolutionary Iran. His literary activities included research into the arts, novels, short stories and screenplays that were published in more than 20 books in Farsi, English, French, Italian, Arabic, Urdu, Kurdish and Turkish. He wrote, directed, edited and mainly produced 20 feature and short length films as well as writing screenplays and editing films for various other Iranian filmmakers. His films attended international film festivals throughout the world more than 1000 times and earned several awards from them. Mohsen Makhmalbaf has also been the subject of many films and books that were made about him and his life.
Since 1996, he temporarily abandoned his filmmaking career to teach. He formed the Makhmalbaf Film House in which he taught film to a select group of pupils including his own three children. He is currently conducting research for his upcoming film after 4 years of cinematic silence.
FESTIVALS:
- 51st Locarno Film Festival (Switzerland, 1998)
- 36th Vienna Film Festival (Austria, 1998)
- 3rd Pusan Film Festival (South Korea, 1998)
- 11th Tokyo Film Festival (Japan, 1998)
- 18th Amiennes Film Festival (France, 1998)
- 21st Cinema du Real Film Festival (France, 1998)
- Festival of Iranian Films in Slovenian Film Museum (Slovenia, 1999)
- Festival of Iranian Films in Vienna (Austria, 1999)
- 34th Karlovy Vary Film Festival (Czech Republic, 1999)
- Festival of Iranian Films in Summer Film School (Czech, Republic, 1999)
- Montreal New Cinema, New Media Film Festival (Canada, 1999)
- 11th Bellinton Film Festival (Switzerland, 1999)
- Festival of Iranian Films in Biennal Seminar of Iranian Studies (USA, 2000)
- Festival of Iranian Films in Venezuelan National Cinematheque (Venezuela, 2000)