Wind Carpet

Ten-year-old Sakura (Miyu Yagyu) travels with her father Makoto from Japan, to Isfahan, Iran, to pick up a Persian carpet designed by her late mother. Although warmly greeted by Makoto’s friend Akbar (Reza Kianian), it soon becomes clear that the carpet – needed in 20 days’ time for a Japanese street-festival – has not even been started. Coming to the rescue is Ruzbeh, Akbar’s tenacious and streetwise 11-year-old nephew, who mobilizes the locals into a sort of carpet-weaving Task Force in a bid to get the job done.

 

This Iranian-Japanese co-production fittingly celebrates cross-cultural collaboration as a way of getting results and, perhaps more importantly, enriching each other’s traditional way of life. Although essentially a conventional fish-out-of-water story, director Kamal Tabrizi brings a variety of tones and textures to the film to keep it from following a predictable pattern. Vibrant, good-natured and with a deeply-embedded emotional thread running throughout, this is an accessible family film with much to offer fans of Iranian cinema, fans of Japanese cinema and fans of cinema full-stop.

خلاصه داستان:

يك طراح زن ژاپني بافت يك فرش را كه قرار است در كارناوال شهر ناكاياما به نمايش در آيد به بافندگان اصفهاني سفارش مي دهد اما مرگ او باعث ناتمام ماندن اين اقدام مي شود. در اين ميان همسر اين زن، هم بايد به فكر معالجه فرزند بيمارش باشد و هم كار ناتمام همسر خود را تمام كند. اما ورود اين دو به ايران سرآغاز ماجراهاي ديگري مي شود.