[caption id="attachment_28886" align="alignright" width="210"] Iranian director Asghar Farhadi answers questions during a press conference in Cannes, on May 17, 2013.[/caption]
TEHRAN (ISNA)- The newest project by Iranian internationally-acclaimed director Asqar Farhadi won the Best Script Award at the 34th International Durban Film Festival, South Africa.
The French-language film known as ‘The Past’ also won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (prix du Jury œcuménique) at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.

Durban International Film Festival kicked off on July 18 and closed on July 28 as it received 74 feature films, 48 documentaries and 45 short films.

'The Past' which is Farhadi’s sixth directorial experience and first one in a foreign country was shot in the French capital, Paris.

The movie has received warm critical acclaim by both French movie goers during its public screening in the country’s movie theaters and those ones who followed the film in its premier at Cannes film festival.

Farhadi’s immigrant romantic drama 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 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.

Farhadi’s Academy Award winning drama A Separation and his Silver Bear winning About Elly were presented at the Paris Cinema Film Festival.

By ISNA

 

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