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Whisper With the Wind is a 2009 Kurdish drama film written and directed by Shahram Alidi in his first film.^[1]

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

Crew

• Director: Shahram Alidi
• Screenplay: Shahram Alidi
• Editing: Hayedeh Safiyari
• Sound recorder: Asghar Abgoun
• Sound mixer:Mohammad-Reza Delpak
• Set designer: Shahram Alidi
• Make-up: Sudabeh Khosravi
• Producer: Kurdistan regional government, Ministry of Culture
• Co producer: Ro Oguz
• Producer: Taw Film, Shahram Alidi
• French Partner: Dream Lab Films, Nasrine Medard de Chardon

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

References

External links

• Whisper with the Wind at IMDb
• Whisper With The Wind Rottentomatoes
• Whisper With The Wind Cinenews
• Whisper With The Wind France24
• Whisper With The Wind Urbandistrib