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Farhadi’s Paris-set drama nabs award at Norway film festival

[caption id="attachment_28886" align="alignright" width="180"] Iranian director Asghar Farhadi answers questions during a press conference in Cannes, on May 17, 2013.[/caption]
Celebrated Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi’s smash-hit drama The Past (Le Passé) has scooped award at the 41st Norwegian International Film Festival (Niff).
Oscar-winning Iranian director Farhadi’s film received Andreas Award (World Church Award) at this year’s Norwegian competition.

Farhadi's Cannes competition entry, The Past that was screened at the International Competition section of the festival was recognized as the Best Spiritual Film of the event.

The French-language film competed with 23 other movies participated from 13 countries at the festival that was in the Norwegian city of Haugesund from August 19 to 22, 2013.

Farhadi’s immigrant romantic drama, The Past depicts the story of an Iranian man who deserts his French wife and two children to return to his homeland. When he comes back to Paris upon his wife's request for a divorce encounters with a complicated situation of the family there.

The Past is Farhadi’s sixth directorial experience and first one in a foreign country that was shot in the French capital, Paris.

The movie has recently received the Best Screenplay Award of the 34th edition of the festival held in the city of Durban.

The film also garnered two prizes at the 66th Cannes film festival including the Best Actress award that went to Argentine-French actress Berenice Bejo, and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (prix du Jury acuménique).

The movie has been selected to contend for award at Toronto International Film Festival that will be held in September, 2013.

The Past is also in the lineup of the 40th edition of Telluride Film Festival in the United States that kicked off on August 29, 2013.

Asghar Farhadi’s family drama A Separation took the 2012 Golden Globe Award and Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

He was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the world by Time magazine in 2012.

By Press TV

 

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