Chess of the Wind, also titled The Chess Game of the Wind, is a 1976 Iranian film written and directed by Mohammad Reza Aslani. The film was screened only once before the 1979 revolution in Iran and was accompanied by a negative reception. After being rediscovered in 2020, the film was released in different countries and was well received.
2021 French theatrical release poster
Shohreh Aghdashloo in Chess of the Wind.
Mohammad Reza Aslani is an Iranian filmmaker, art theorist, graphic designer and poet known mostly for his experimental films and documentaries. He is also the co-writer of Espacementalism manifesto—although he never signed the manifesto—and one of the main poets of the New Wave Poetry of Iran alongside Yadollah Royaee, Fereydoun Rahnema and Ahmadreza Ahmadi.
Mohammad Reza Aslani