In The Wind Will Carry Us, Abbas Kiarostami once more takes up the subject of death, dealt with brilliantly in the prize-winning film Taste of Cherry. Poetry, sensitivity, and beautiful photography make up a picture of certainty and of human doubt. Once more, Kiarostami works with common people, adults and children with no knowledge of the cinema, in a touching, enchanting way.

     Curiously enough, people leave Teheran to spend a few days in a remote village of Siah Dareh, in the Iranian Kurdistan. The inhabitants ignore the reason they are there. The visitors wend their way to an ancient cemetery and walk around it. The inhabitants of the village are of the belief they are hunting for treasure; however, they leave the place as though they had not found what they were looking for.

     The funeral rites draw the Iran television network to the small village of Siah Dareh in Iranian Kurdistan. They want to film one of these rituals, but can not foretell death to make the documentary. Life insists on winning out in this film awarded the Jury Award at the Venice Film Festival/99.