Letters In The Wind (Namehaye Baad)

Soldiers in a military camp near to Teheran. They have just arrived, ready to do their military service, all too happy to leave their distant village behind them, to visit the capital, as has been promised. But the army makes demands that soon drive away such carefree attitudes. Between the interminable exercises, regardless of the climate and the daily fatigue duties, boredom reigns. A recorded voice is circulated on cassette by the shyest among them, Taghi. She becomes a mystery and an object of desire, and the cassette player an unexpected conduit for contact with the outside. In a documentary style, ‘Letters in the Wind’ echoes the subtle films of Abbas Kiarostami and Mohsen Makmalbaf, not only in its approach to everyday life, but also and above all in its allegory of resistance to excessive authority.