Fondazione MAST is pleased to welcome Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, one of the greatest masters of contemporary cinema and a two-time Academy Award winner.
Following the screening of his film The Salesman, which won Best Screenplay and Best Actor at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival and the 2017 Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, Farhadi will conclude the evening by retracing the key milestones of his career in conversation with Gian Luca Farinelli, Director of the Cineteca di Bologna.
THE SALESMAN
Asghar Farhadi, Iran, Francia, 2016, 125’, o.v. with subtitles
Emad and Rana are a young couple of actors forced to leave their apartment in central Tehran due to urgent renovation work. A friend helps them find a new place without telling them anything about the previous tenant, who will instead be the cause of an 'incident' that will disrupt their lives.
In collaboration with the International Filmmaking Academy, of which Asghar Farhadi is 2025 Master Teacher, and the Cineteca di Bologna.
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Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi made his directorial debut with Dancing in the Dust (2002). After About Elly’s success (2009), for which he won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlinale, Farhadi gained international recognition and critical acclaim with A Separation (2011), receiving no less than seventy awards, including an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. He then left Iran for France to shoot The Past (2013), which won Bérénice Bejo the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013. He returned to Iran to direct The Salesman (2016) which premiered in competition at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, where the film won Best Screenplay and Best Actor (Shahab Hosseini). The film became Farhadi’s biggest success and earned him the second Academy Award of his career. His latest film, A Hero (2021) won the Grand Prix at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.