The Wind Will Carry Us follows an engineer who travels to a remote rural village in Iran for an assignment. As he waits for his mission to begin, he becomes fascinated by the daily lives and traditions of the villagers. He forms relationships with the locals and delves into the complexities of their lives, including a matriarchal family, a dying boy, and an ongoing project to dig a well. With minimalism and slow cinema techniques, the film explores themes of urban-rural divide, tradition, and the circle of life and death.
Omar Khayyam was one of the greatest Persian poets. He was also a brilliant mathematician. Though his quatrains were written in the 11th century, they are still popular the world over. The details of his life are unknown, so this movie invents a biography for him and includes in it his real achievements - the invention of a new calendar and the penning of those epigrammatic poems. This film has him romancing a sultan's bride and foiling the assassin sect's plot to kill the sultan's son.
The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam is the story of a young boy from a family of Persian astronomers who journeys across three continents to find his long-lost heritage and ultimately himself. The movie explores themes of family, tradition, integrity, and the pursuit of knowledge in the backdrop of medieval times.
Sohrab, a provincial young writer, is lost in the desert on the way to Tehran to get a publication license for his book on old Persian poetry, but the trip involves some bizarre events.
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