Grief rarely announces itself politely, and Risa and the Wind Phone builds its entire premise around that truth: a disconnected phone booth where the living speak to the dead, and a teenager who starts hearing something back.
What is Risa and the Wind Phone about?
Risa loses her father and, not long after, finds herself drawn to an old wind phone — a booth with a rotary handset connected to nothing, built for mourners to say the things they never got to say. What begins as a private ritual turns into something stranger when Risa becomes convinced her father is answering. The film follows her through that uncertain territory, where longing and belief blur, while her family works through its own unspoken history. Old secrets surface as Risa pushes deeper into the connection, forcing everyone around her to reckon with grief they had each been carrying alone. Director Juan Cabral keeps the focus tight on Risa's internal experience rather than tipping the story into outright fantasy, letting the audience sit with the same doubt she does: is this comfort, delusion, or something the film never fully explains.
About the cast
Elena Romero anchors the film as Risa, with Diego Peretti, Cazzu, and Joaquín Furriel rounding out a cast drawn largely from Argentine film and television. Gustavo Garzón, Manuel Da Silva, Silvina Sabater, and Fabián Casas fill supporting roles across the family drama.
Context & significance
An Argentina–United States co-production, Risa and the Wind Phone borrows its central image from a real-world tradition: disconnected phone booths installed as places for the bereaved to speak aloud to people they've lost, a practice that has quietly spread well beyond its origin point. The film uses that idea as a lens for family drama rather than a supernatural thriller, keeping its focus on the everyday texture of mourning.
Watching Risa and the Wind Phone on Ktime
Risa and the Wind Phone streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so viewers can watch in whichever language suits them. A free K-Time account is all that's needed to start watching, and the platform's Farsi interface makes browsing and playback straightforward for Persian-speaking audiences.