Willow and Wind

Beed-o baad

Iran

1999

77 Min

Color

Persian

Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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PROD Mohammad Mehdi Dadgoo, Makoto Ueda

CAST Hadi Alipour, Amir Janfada, Majid Alipour, Mohammad Sharif Ebrahimi

A young school boy was ordered to walk a long way to purchase a piece of window glass larger than he could carry back to his school. The weather was bitter and the wind so strong that he almost failed on the road. He tried hard and finally moved the load back to the classroom where he was supposed to fix up a broken window. He was all alone and no one to turn for help. The glass blew crushed in pieces by the wind… —Wikipedia

Director

Mohammad-Ali Talebi

Born in Tehran in 1958, Mohammad Ali Talebi graduated from Tehran University’s College of Dramatic Arts. He started his career in cinema by working as assistant director and director of documentary films for the Iranian television. Talebi has contributed to the formation of the puzzle-like image of the post-revolution Iranian cinema which would be short of something without this piece. A review of his track record from City of Mice (1985) to The Wall, provides an analysis of policy making in Iranian cinema and the behavior of private sector in the film industry as well as a glimpse of the trend of filmmaking in post-revolution Iran. Every one of these titles could be the name of a chapter in this analysis: They could start from City of Mice and how you could entertain millions of viewers, The Finishing Line and the trend suggested by the private sector, Wilderness and the fate of a state-sponsored mystical cinema, The Boot and special position of Children and young adults’ cinema, Tic… read more