Where the Winds Die

Where the Winds Die
Iran, 2022, 12’
in Kurdish w/ Arm․/Eng․ subtitles

Director and Scriptwriter: Pejman Alipour
Animators: Pejman Alipour, Marzieh Maysami Azad
Producer: Pejman Alipour
Editor: Pejman Alipour
Sound: Mehrshad Malekooti

Sardasht is a Kurdish city in the West of Iran. It is the first city in the world to be a victim of chemical weapons after being bombed with mustard gas at 4:15 p.m. on Sunday, June 28^th, 1987. This film is about the before and after of the bombing, a romantic relationship between a couple, and finally the effects of the post-war.

Pejman Alipour                                   

Born in 1975 in Sardasht, West Iran, Pejman Alipour is a director, animator, illustrator, and cartoonist. He has an MA in Directing Animation from the Tehran Art University. Currently, he lives in Mahabad, Iran.

Filmography
Cold War (2000), Small Heart (2005), I Don’t Know the Way To My House (2006), and Where the Winds Die (2022).