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180611
Sun, 05/08/2011 - 03:54
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Sony Pictures Buys Rights of Iranian Award-Winning Film
TEHRAN , May 8(FNA)- Sony Pictures Classics bought all the rights of Iraninan director Asqar Farhadi's latest movie, 'Nader and Simin: A Separation', from Memento Films International in North America.
Written and directed by Asqar Farhadi, the Iranian movie won the Golden Bear at the 2011 Berlin Film Festival, press tv reported.
Farhadi also won the Silver Bear award of the 59th International Berlin Film Festival and the Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature of the 8th Tribeca Film Festival for his 2009 About Elly.
Nader and Simin: A Separation recounts the story of a couple who are getting a divorce, while considering the future of their only child.
Farhadi received a $25,000 grant from the Motion Picture Association and the Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) for the script development of the drama which was assessed as "a beautiful human study of a very normal everyday life, with people in a region who are being challenged all the time by issues social, geographical and financial."
The Hollywood Reporter has predicted the film to be among next year's foreign language film nominees of the Oscars.
Written and directed by Asqar Farhadi, the Iranian movie won the Golden Bear at the 2011 Berlin Film Festival, press tv reported.
Farhadi also won the Silver Bear award of the 59th International Berlin Film Festival and the Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature of the 8th Tribeca Film Festival for his 2009 About Elly.
Nader and Simin: A Separation recounts the story of a couple who are getting a divorce, while considering the future of their only child.
Farhadi received a $25,000 grant from the Motion Picture Association and the Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) for the script development of the drama which was assessed as "a beautiful human study of a very normal everyday life, with people in a region who are being challenged all the time by issues social, geographical and financial."
The Hollywood Reporter has predicted the film to be among next year's foreign language film nominees of the Oscars.
