In Samira Makhmalbaf's film Blackboards (2000), a group of men trek through the mountainous regions of Iranian Kurdistan, stooped under the huge blackboards strapped to their backs. They are itinerant teachers looking for pupils, anyone who will pay them for lessons with money or food. 'Do you know how to write? Would you like to learn?' they say to everyone they meet in earnest, badgering tones. In mountain villages, where the locals hide inside their houses, they shout: 'Open the windows. Answer me! I've come a long way to teach your children to read and write.

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