The Wind Will Carry Us

Kiarostami’s masterpiece follows a Tehrani filmmaker who poses as an engineer to covertly film the funeral rites of a small village in rural Iran. The expected death refuses to arrive, however, and as he stays in the village and gets to know its inhabitants, the filmmaker finds his attitudes unexpectedly changing. Perhaps the most poignant of Kiarostami’s many self-reflexive investigations of cinema, The Wind Will Carry Us won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival.