India to host Iran’s globetrotting ‘Scent of Wind’
ILNA – Iranian film ‘Scent of Wind’, directed by Hadi Mohaqeq, will be screened at the 21st Chennai International Film Festival in India.
The festival will run from December 14 to 21.
The film has participated in several international festivals, having been screened in film festivals such as Busan in South Korea, Nantes in France, and Shanghai in China, where it received several accolades.
Following its success in many festivals in France, the film enjoyed a five-month screening, debuting in 106 cinema halls. The demand for the film increased, prompting its screening in an expanded network of 387 cinema halls, attracting over 32,000 viewers throughout France.
The story is set in a distant Iranian village where a paralyzed man collects herbal medicine in the mountains for making his living with his sick child. The electricity goes off in his house and an electrician comes to fix it. Unfortunately, the problem is bigger than what was anticipated and may take days to be resolved. When he sees the child on the sickbed, he feels committed to doing whatever he can to bring the electricity back. However, he has a tough job ahead with facing nature and some unexpected events.