Synopsis

An Avant-garde short movie by Bahram Beizai about history of Kish island in south of Iran. It was part of the film Kish Tales, which was later separated.

A native woman with a Tehrani Persian accent and local clothes appears on the street of modern Kish Island to a man counting money and reminds him of a distant past, when life on the island was different.

Images of the past flash by. Each time, the man remembers nothing and rushes about his daily work.



At the end of the film, the man has remembered nothing of the past and is still counting money, this time in a boutique. The woman sets off and walks along the pier of the harbor to the end and reaches the water’s edge.

Cast: Parviz Pourhosseini , Shahrokh Sakhai, Mozhdeh Shamsai, Saeed Shanbezadeh

Produced by: Bahram Beizai (Lisar Film Company)
Cinematography by: Aziz Sa'ati
Editing by: Bahram Beizai

The screenplay for "Dialogue with the Wind" was written by Bahram Beizai in 1998. The screenplay was published in 1999 with the text of conversations with the film crew as well as articles about the film in a book called "Conversation, Criticism and Opinion," and the screenplay for "Dialogue with the Wind" was published by Didar Publishing House, through the efforts of Zavon Ghokasian.

The first screening of "Dialogue with the Wind" was at the 1998 Fajr Film Festival in Tehran, along with three other parts of the Kish Tales by Naser Taghvai, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, and Abolfazl Jalili.

The film Kish Tales was considered for the 1999 Cannes Film Festival. The festival's director decided that the Dialogue with the Wind "does not resonate with the spirit of the island," and so this section was removed from the film with the cooperation of the original producer.

Dialogue: The movie that was never made

In 1999, Beizai bought the rights to Dialogue with the Wind and took the film back from the producer, only to later make a feature film by adding three more parts—“Dialogue with Water,” “Dialogue with Fire,” and “Dialogue with Soil.” The next three parts remained as screenplays, and Dialogue with the Wind was not released to the public until years later and in limited form. (Wikipedia)


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