Armenia awards Iranian family drama
Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi’s Nader and Semin, A Separation has topped the 2011 edition of the Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival.
The family drama won the Golden Apricot Award of the event’s International Feature Film section.
Nader and Simin: A Separation recounts the story of a middle-class Iranian couple who are getting a divorce, while considering the future of their only child.
The film has won numerous international awards including the Golden Bear Award of the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival and the event’ s Silver Bears for the entire male and female cast ensemble.
It also won the USD 60,000 Sydney Film Prize of the 2011 Sydney Film Festival after competing against this year’ s Cannes Palme d’Or winner Tree of Life.
Farhadi received a USD 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 will be among next year’s foreign language Oscars nominees.
Sacher Film, which belongs to Italian filmmaker Nanni Moretti, also acquired the rights to distribute the film in Italy and screen it in cinemas starting June 2011.
Winners of the 8th Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival were announced during a ceremony held at the Latar hotel complex on Sunday.
The event’ s Silver Apricot award went to The Journals of Musan by Park Jungbum while the Special Jury Prize was presented to The Prize by Paula Markovitch.
Source: presstv.ir
