The Wind Will Carry Us

1999. Iran/France. A television crew arrives at a remote Kurdish village to wait for the impending death of an old woman and the subsequent ancestral funeral ceremony. The daily life of the ancient valley town is contrasted with phone calls from modern Tehran—calls that are accessible only on the nearby mountaintop. As Behzad, the crew's cameraman, shuttles between the two, he learns patience and reassesses his route through life. 118 min.