Described by its director as a film “about displacement and relocation,” Bashu follows the plight of its title character, a boy of ten, as he flees the air raid that destroys his family’s home. Heading north, Bashu ends up in the care of a strong-willed farm woman who, in giving him a home, helps him understand a new form of family. Because of its humanist, anti-war sentiments, Bashu was not shown in Iran until 1989.