Academy award Iranian Filmmaker Asghar Farhadi has been honored with French L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (the Order of Arts and Letters).

Farhadi received the honor during a ceremony held in the French capital Paris on February 27, 2014.

French Minister of Culture and Art  Aurélie Filippetti dedicated the honor to the acclaimed Iranian  director.

Established in 1957, the order is presented to a person who has made significant contributions to the arts, literature or any other related fields.

Farhadi made his latest production The Past (Le Passé) in Paris that Premiered in the 2013 Cannes film festival.

Farhadi’s Paris-set tale drama has had massive screening programs across the world and scooped many international awards.

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 film nabbed  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 œcuménique).

Farhadi had earlier received the year’s medal of Paris City Hall that was dedicated by the city’s mayor, Bertrand Delanoe, during a ceremony held in the capital’s City Hall.

Farhadi's Nader and Simin: A Separation won the Oscar for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards in 2012.

By Press TV

 

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