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Whisper with the Wind

2009 Iranian film From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Whisper With the Wind is a 2009 Kurdish drama film written and directed by Shahram Alidi in his first film.[1]

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Plot

In the years of military asphyxia in dictatorial regime of Saddam, in a very bad situation that everything was under the regime's control, people find any available way to keep in touch together. An old man is the post-man in a wide area of Kurdistan Iraq. His job is to deliver people's messages but not written one, but oral messages. He is an oral post-man and records and sells the messages of the folk and gets income in this way.

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Cast

  • Omar Chawshin: Mam Baldar
  • Maryam Boubani: Mam Boldar's wife
  • Fakhr Mohammad Barzani: Kak Shamal
  • Valid Marouf Jarou: Radio announcer
  • Mohara, Hossein Ghadr: Radio serviceman
  • Bistoun Ali Ghadr: Deserting soldier

Awards

  • Cannes International Film Festival- France- Critic Weeks Section- 2009- Competitor for Golden Camera- Three Prizes:
    • The Best Feature Film's ACID support
    • Prize of View of Youth
    • Prize of Young European Critics
  • Mumbai International Film Festival- Prize of Mumbai Young Critics Award- India- 2009
  • Amazon Film Festival- Special Jury Award- Brazil- 2009
  • Pessac International Historic Film Festival- Prize of Academic Jury- France- 2009
  • Student Academy Awards of Bratislava- Bratislava Film festival- Slovak- 2009

References

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