The Wind Will Carry Us

A few people arrive from Tehran for a short stay at Siah Dareh, a village in Iranian Kurdistan. The locals do not know why they are there. The strangers wander around the former cemetery and let the villagers think they are looking for treasure. They end up leaving without really giving the impression that they have found what they were looking for.

Release Date: July 28th, 2000 (NY-Lincoln Plaza, Quad); may expand elsewhere at later dates

Language: Persian with English subtitles. Original title in Iran: Bad Ma Ra Khabad Bord.

Running Time: 118 minutes
Distributor: New Yorker Films

Cast: Behzad Dourani, and the residents of the village of Siah Dareh, Iran.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Screenwriter: Abbas Kiarostami

Awards: Grand Jury Special Prize, FIPRESCI Award ("For its lyrical sense of nature, its intriguing narrative and its trust in the viewer's participation in the creation of its poetry"), 1999 Venice Film Festival.

Reviews

indieWIRE
"Kiarostami approximates and appreciates the world unlike most other works of art."

The New York Times
"There is perhaps no living filmmaker as fully alive as Mr. Kiarostami. His eyes -- and therefore ours -- are perpetually open. His absorption in the wide emptiness of the rural Iranian landscape, in a remote corner of which The Wind Will Carry Us takes place, yields views -- hillsides, valleys and gnarled, solitary trees -- that seem almost otherworldly in their clarity and depth."

World Socialist Review
"This is an indispensable work."

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