
Kisses of the Wind
Zahra Salarnia | 2025 | 55s | NZ
Radar Vienna INTERNATIONAL Award
Competition 02
Kisses of the Wind embodies the director’s sensory experiences of the Port Waikato dunes in New Zealand through a series of digitally edited still photographs and sound. As the images of sand patterns transform into one another, they create an illusion of movement that echoes the rhythm of ocean waves. In this liminal space, between stillness and motion, sand and sea, the film suspends fixed boundaries, allowing new forms and meanings to emerge.