Behzad Dorani

With delicate notes of absurdist humor and serenely beautiful landscapes, Abbas Kiarostami continues to plumb some of the eternal questions in The Wind Will Carry Us. The emphasis, once more, is on the journey rather the destination. This is essential, transcendent cinema.

In a dark future plagued by a strange disease, the police endeavor to solve a murder by reenacting the crime at a sinister stadium.

Amir and Narges fall in love, but Narges' father demands a considerable dowry that Amir cannot afford. Desperate to make money, Amir finds a low-paying job at a fishery. Amir catches a break when he discovers an illegal poaching operation taking place at night, and secures a position with the poachers to make more money. Things get out of hand when the police show up unexpectedly.

During the Shah’s ousting, protestors burned movie theaters to reject Western culture. Forty years later, four Iranians set out to recreate the past.