Whisper with the Wind


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

  • 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