Iranian smash-hit movie The Past (Le Passé) directed by Oscar winning filmmaker Asghar Farhadi is set to hit some international movie theaters.
Farhadi’s latest screen creation is scheduled to have public screening at several theaters in Finland, Serbia and Italy.

Finland is to host the movie from November 29, while it will hit the movie theaters in Serbia from December 5 and in Italy from December 19, 2013.

Farhadi’s immigrant romantic drama The Past has experienced its public screenings in France, the Netherlands, Poland and Greece so far.

The film 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 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 film has also been named Iran’s representative at the Best Foreign Language Film section of the 2014 Academy Awards.

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

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

By Press TV

 

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