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
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