Intro by Italo Spinelli
  Focus on Tehran
Tribute to Majid Majidi
Tribute to Garin Nugroho
  Directors
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Awards
  Credits
Kaze No Jutan
Wind Carpet
Kamal Tabrizi
Young Sakura’s mother, Kinue, is chosen to showcase a Persian carpet based on her design, for a festival’s final attraction. One day Kinue is in a store and she suddenly realises that she forgot her wallet. As she exits the building, she is struck dead by a passing van. Sakura’s father, Makoto, finally decides to take her daughter with him to Iran, the man is a Persian carpet merchant.
 
 

 
Screenplay Mohammad Soleymani
Photography (colour) Hassan Pooya, Tadayuki Ui
Editing Hossein Zandbaf
Music Payman Yazdanian
Art Direction Madjid Mirfakhrai
Cast Reza Kianian, Takaaki Enoki, Miyu Yagyu, Farbod Ahmadjo
Production Alizera Shojanoori
Year of Production 2002
Running Time 111’
 

Kamal Tabrizi

Kamal Tabrizi was born in Tehran in 1959. He studied Cinema and directed his fist short in 1979. From 1988, Tabrizi began shooting feature films and in 1995 he directed Leily is with Me, a satire of the Iran-Iraq War. By Tabrizi we recall: On the altar of love (1990) and A Mother’s love (1998).


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