The Wind Will Carry Us

Abbas Kiarostami19991h 58mSocial Issues, Drama

Why we chose it

Abbas Kiarostami won an award at Venice for this spare, generous portrait of an Iranian village seen through the eyes of a man from the city. All he seems to do is keep setting off in search of a phone signal, yet those trips end up telling you a surprising amount about life.

Synopsis

Three men in a jeep cross the hills of Kurdistan looking for a small mountain village, where a boy shows them a place to stay. They claim to be engineers and the villagers decide they’re hunting for treasure, but they’re really a film crew who have come to record a family’s mourning rites and are waiting for an old woman to die. Death, however, won’t come when it’s called.

Information

Director
Cast
Also known as
Bad Ma Ra Khahad Bord
Production year
1999
Decade
1990s
Duration
1h 58m
Festivals & Awards
Language
Persian, Kurdish
Country
Iran, France
Subtitles
Greek, Polish
Age rating
Κ-12

Venice Film Festival

CinemAvvenire' Award

1999

Venice Film Festival

FIPRESCI Prize

1999

Venice Film Festival

Grand Special Jury Prize

1999

What others say

4.3
104 reviews

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