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Release Date: 1999

Cast: Behzad Dorani

Categories: Movies, World cinema

The Wind Will Carry Us (Persian: باد ما را خواهد برد‎, Bād mā rā khāhad bord) is a 1999 Iranian film by Abbas Kiarostami. The title is a reference to a poem written by the famous modern Iranian woman poet Forough Farrokhzad. In 1999, the movie was nominated for the Golden Lion of the Venice Film Festival. It won the Grand Special Jury Prize (Silver Lion), the FIPRESCI Prize, and the CinemAvvenire award at this festival. It received numerous other nominations and awards as well. A group of journalists pretending to be production engineers arrive in a Kurdish village to... MORE

The Wind Will Carry Us (Persian: باد ما را خواهد برد‎, Bād mā rā khāhad bord) is a 1999 Iranian film by Abbas Kiarostami. The title is a reference to a poem written by the famous modern Iranian woman poet Forough Farrokhzad. In 1999, the movie was nominated for the Golden Lion of the Venice Film Festival. It won the Grand Special Jury Prize (Silver Lion), the FIPRESCI Prize, and the CinemAvvenire award at this festival. It received numerous other nominations and awards as well. A group of journalists pretending to be production engineers arrive in a Kurdish village to document the locals' mourning rituals that anticipate the death of an elderly woman, but she remains alive. The main engineer is forced to slow down and appreciate the lifestyle of the village. The Wind Will Carry Us is a poetic interpretation of complex issues such as life and death, the modern and traditional, and the local and global. A traditional village with its old rituals and laid-back life is visited by three strangers whose intentions are mysteriously kept back. A cell phone connects the remote village to an external world that seems to be waiting for the ancient to die. The urbanite visitors interfere into LESS