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View The Wind Will Carry Us film page
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Spoiler-free premise

A Tehran media crew waits in a Kurdish village for an elderly woman's death while director Behzad slowly encounters local life.

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Engineer Behzad and an unseen crew arrive in the Kurdish village of Siah Dareh, ostensibly for telecommunications work but waiting to film mourning rituals after an old woman's death. Delays draw Behzad into conversations with villagers and repeated drives uphill for phone reception.

Why it belongs

The Wind Will Carry Us makes waiting ethically revealing through offscreen characters, winding paths, failed phone calls, and a city visitor learning to look differently.

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A zigzag road, rooftops, a schoolboy guide, a hidden ditch digger, milk in darkness, turtle movement, and repeated signal trips make unseen labor and impatient observation central to the film's form.

Major award record

Metadata only · zero points in 40/40/20
Venice1 win1999 · official Venice 1999 awards ↗

Plus 1 additional win

No headline-category win to name

Totals include every recorded competitive win. Only Picture or top-film honors, Direction, Screenplay, and lead or supporting performances are named.

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Sight & Sound—IMDb Top 250—AFI 100—
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Great Cinema Master List scores

Greatness9.1
Engagement8.0
Ease7.5

Persian / Kurdish · Not Rated
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Mood: Absorbing & Reflective