The Wind Will Carry Us

The Wind Will Carry Us (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 Golden Lion of Venice Film Festival. It won Grand Special Jury Prize (Silver Lion), FIPRESCI Prize and CinemAvvenire award in this festival. It received numerous other nominations and awards as well. A group of journalis... more

The Wind Will Carry Us (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 Golden Lion of Venice Film Festival. It won Grand Special Jury Prize (Silver Lion), FIPRESCI Prize and CinemAvvenire award in this festival. It received numerous other nominations and awards as well. A group of journalists and production engineers arrive in a Kurdish village to document the locals' mourning rituals anticipating 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. He who stayed at the village with great enthusiasm for the burial of the old woman finds nothing interesting in the ceremony at the end. The Wind Will Carry Us is a poetic interpretation of complex issues such as life and death, modern and traditional and local and global. A traditional village... less