The Tall Shadows of the Wind (Church of Film)

Convinced that a scarecrow is throwing pebbles at him, Abdollah draws a face on it and gives it his cap. But as random tragedies and strange circumstances beset the village, it seems everyone in town is convinced that the scarecrow possesses supernatural powers. Alone in disavowing the influence of the spectre in the field, Abdollah attempts to gather a resistance.

THE TALL SHADOW OF THE WINDS is a legendary piece of the Iranian New Wave that weaves revolutionary political allegory into shades of folk horror and uncanny surrealism. The film was released shortly after the Iranian Revolution and promptly banned.