ISNA - The Iranian film �No Date, No Signature� directed by Vahid Jalilvand has been selected as the country�s official submission to the 91st Academy Awards in the best foreign language film category.
A committee was assigned by Iran�s Farabi Cinema Foundation to choose the county�s submission to the Oscar.
Directed by Vahid Jalilvand, �No Date, No Signature� recently raked in awards at the 20th Iran Cinema Celebration, including Best Director, Best Film, Best Script, and Best Supporting Actress and Actor awards.
The drama narrates the story of a forensic pathologist Dr. Kaveh Nariman (played by Amir Aghaei), a principled and virtuous man, who gets involved in an accident and faces a dilemma of whether he is responsible for the death of a child or if the cause of death is unrelated to his doing.
Some of the movie�s international awards include: Best Director and Best Actor Award for Navid Mohammadzadeh at the Venice Horizons sections of the 74th Venice Film Festival; Best Film Award at the Brussels International Film Festival; Best Director at Russia�s Mirror International Film Festival; Audience Award and Best Actor Award at the 18th Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival in Spain; and Grand Prize of 2017 Chicago International Film Festival.
Iran won the Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language Film in 2017 for �The Salesman� and in 2012 for �A Separation�, both of which directed by acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi.