A TV crew from Tehran arrives in a remote Kurdish village to film an unusual funeral ceremony but are stymied when they find that the woman they expect to have died is clinging to life. A tantalizingly rich, fablelike story, “The Wind Will Carry Us is a film about nothing and everything—life, death, the quality of light on dusty hills” (J. Hoberman). It took home four major prizes from the Venice Film Festival, and many critics called it one of the best films of the year