requiem for a tribe

I have an intimate knowledge of the Bakhtiari because I am one of them. I was born in a Bakhtiari village and lived there until 2015. We moved to Tehran to continue studying and to pursue our dreams of working in cinema. City life was attractive to us, but our mother initially became depressed because she was used to the countryside, surrounded by nature’s beauty. I was working as an assistant director when I met a woman. She talked about her memories of migration for hours. She was just like my mother and grandmother. She was in tears telling me that her children wanted to take her to the city to live there forever. I wanted to cheer my mother up at that time, so I was constantly showing her videos of nomadic migrations. One of these was a documentary by Anthony Howarth called People of the Wind. I discovered that the sad woman was one of the main characters of that film. I decided to make a film about her and all other women like her: traditional women and their struggles with modern life. Their families always decide for them, yet they are never happy.