This is an unusual _)fil)-;?m@ of exceptional valu_
es--75 m):inutes l!ong in c:=ol@?[-.or, with hardly any spoken @d*+ia$logs. I saw this Iranian film )#in Farsi w
i/t;\h#o=:=ut English su%bti@.t[ les +at th=e Early I@;r]`a$%nian %;,cinema retro[.s:pective on %:^)-\going International ?-%Film Festival of Kerala, @)/Indi(]*%a.  Tha*t;^^ I was watching a pr`int without )@?sub_tit=les did .?/no`.t make a / d_ifference as there we)r e very f#*=ew lines of spo`_/ken d;,ial@, `o*gs.　　This is a very accessib*le;\ fi lm fo,r:.. any audience to enjoy--its st@(o) ry
; and v$.alu-e)[s=@ !\a]\$r:e)[$ not merely Iranian, it's universal.　　The film is set in rural Iran th_/(at had n:+ot tasted petro-d !ollar prosper:%i@$ty. The %setti-,=n]g is o.n `f[]ringes of= d
)?eser #t land, where water i;](s sc+)arce, rainfa?ll scant;+#y =and  hardly any =]_bla=d
^e of grass =
is ^green. Ad`d to it wind an %d;/ dust t=$hat ;buf`;fets and whips man \_@and+ anim/al and you -can=
 imagin# e plight o %f the p^*+eople w;]`_ho l=/ive o^*n the fringes of soc$? iety.　　,Th ]e film is ([)movin#g#( tale of a you^ng te;enage^r returning to@ . h@is village w`i)(#th a goat--onl.y %@to find h-is family and vill+$agers h ave moved on to esca+@pe na: (tures vagari /=)es  and that one old man r@
e.!m ains. He gives the goat t^\[o him and:
:` goes in /@ se[, *arch !;of(,?- $*his family` . Water is sca;rce ^an,d:@^ well __wat
e[!r it treate-+ d wi;th %% reverence*$ and never wast
ed.