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