Acclaimed Iranian director Asghar Farhadis Paris-set tale movieThe Pasthas started its public screening in the home countrys movie theaters.Farhadis latest production went on a number of movie theaters screens in the capital city of Tehran as simultaneously hit some 2000 screens in the world.
Farhadis latest filmThe Past (Le Pass)received public screening licence from Irans Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance at the request of film distributing company, Filmiran, Iran Cinema Organization had earlier announced.
The Pastis Farhadis sixth directorial experience and first one in a foreign country that was shot in the French capital, Paris.
Farhadis 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 scooped 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 cumnique).
The Prize of the Ecumenical Jury was conferred on Farhadi for his films moral values, according to the statement of the jury.
By Press TV
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