Internationally renowned Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi’s latest drama The Past is set to pass the required process for public screening in Iran.
A copy of Farhadi’s recent film is slated to be sent from Paris to be monitored in Iran for receiving screening licence, said the director of the film's distributor company Filmiran Ali Sartipi.
The Past (Le Passé) which is originally in French, may be dubbed into Persian for public screening, ISNA quoted Sartipi as saying.
Farhadi’s sixth directorial experience is to contend for the 2013 Cannes Palme d'Or, competing with 18 other movies at the Main Competition section of the festival.
Farhadi’s immigrant romantic drama depicts the story of an Iranian man and his French wife as chronicles their family life.
The Academy Award winning movie The Artist’s Argentine-French actress Bérénice Bejo who replaced former candidate Marion Cotillard along with the French actor of Algerian origin, Tahar Rahim and the acclaimed Iranian actor Ali Mosaffa star in the movie.
The Past is Farhadi’s first filmmaking experience in a foreign country that was shot in the French capital, Paris.
Named among the top 100 most anticipated films of 2013, the movie is scheduled to hit French movie theaters from May.
Farhadi's Nader and Simin: A Separation won the Oscar for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards.
By Press TV
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