The Wind Will Carry Us: dir Abbas Kiarostami (1999)

Kiarostami wrote and directed this deceptively simple but highly affecting film about a journalist posing as a city engineer who arrives in a Kurdish village to document the locals’ mourning rituals in anticipation of the death of an old woman. She doesn’t die, though, and the journalist is forced to slow down and appreciate the lifestyle of the village. The result is a beautifully shot movie, simple and honest, about life, death, and living …

Screens as part of a new monthly film programme in Efie’s Rekord Gallery tracing the intertwined histories of African and Arab Liberation Cinema: “through a carefully curated selection of films, the series interrogates how revolutionary aesthetics, political struggle, and the diasporic imagination have shaped, and continue to shape, the language of cinema across continents”. It’s organised with Bootleg Griot, an independent public library project currently ensconced in the Rekord Gallery that is aimed at improving access to literature and print media – especially from writers and collectives of African descent.