Sentences with phrase «iranian director»

Jannis Kounellis passes away aged 80; The Salesman to be screened in London following Iranian director's Oscars boycott

But besting all of these was Iranian director Mehrdad Oskouei's markedly more conventional Starless Dreams.

After screening his second and forth features Men at Work and Modest Reception at the Forum section of Berlinale in 2006 and 2012, Iranian director Mani Haghighi returned to the festival with his fifth feature A Dragon Arrives!

The most gripping example has to be Iranian director Asghar Farhadi's brilliant mosaic A Separation, a staggeringly sharp drama that charts the collective downfall of many different couplings after a seemingly small disagreement is made exponentially worse by denial, judgment, and guilt.

Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, who won for

Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, who won for The Salesman, wrote a powerful statement denouncing the Muslim ban.

I hope those two are signing a contract for a series of similarly off - kilter comedy - thrillers, and I would, if not run, at least walk fairly briskly to the next film of British - Iranian director Nima Nourizadeh.

Iranian director Asghar Farhadi won Best Foreign Language Film for «The Salesman», but wasn't at the Oscars.

The Iranian director has had two previous films compete for the Palme d'Or: «The Past» in 2013 and «The Salesman» in 2016.

The Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, who boycotted the event in protest at Trump's travel bans, won best foreign language film for The Salesman in what was widely seen as a rebuke to the White House.

The Salesman, from Iranian director Asghar Farhadi (A Separation), picked up two awards: one for Farhadi's screenplay, the other a Best Actor prize for Shahab Hosseini, who plays a stage actor whose wife is assaulted in their home.

«Every character that he writes is so unique,» Cruz says about the Iranian director.

For critically acclaimed Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, Like Someone In Love is his first cinematic venture in Japanese cinema.

After Donald Trump first put his immigration ban into effect, Iranian director Asghar Farhadi announced that he would not attend the Oscars regardless of whether or not he would be permitted to do so.

Iranian director Asghar Farhadi's «The Salesman» deservedly won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language movie.

Jafar Panahi's Taxi Year: 2015 Director: Jafar Panahi In the seven - plus years since Iranian director Jafar Panahi was sentenced by government authorities to a 20 - year ban from filmmaking in his homeland, the acclaimed auteur has turned inward — and kept making movies.

On the eve of the opening ceremony Wong Kar - wai led the jury members including actor Tim Robbins, Oscar Winning Danish director Susanne Beir, Venice Silver Lion prize winning Iranian director Shirin Neshat and others to meet the media and kicked off the 11 day long film festival.

Opening the festival this year is «Everybody Knows,» the latest work from two - time Oscar - winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi.

Taxi Tehran is Iranian director Jafar Panahi's third film since the 2010 prohibition that, among other restrictions, forbade him from working in cinema for 20 years.

After the ceremony, it was time to screen the Festival opening film: «Everybody Knows,» playing out - of - competiton from Iranian director Asghar Farhadi and starring Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz.

Banned Iranian director Jafar Panahi «s Taxi, in which the filmmaker stars as a taxi driver talking to passengers as he navigates the streets of Tehran, won the Berlinale Golden Bear for best film Saturday at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival.Another fest favorite, Chilean director Pablo Larraín «s subversive and darkly comic new film El Club (The Club), picked up the Grand Jury prize, or the Silver Bear.

Looking, to some degree, at the immigrant experience on the other side of the pond is «The Past» [B +], the eagerly - awaited follow up to Iranian director Asghar Farhadi «s «A Separation.»

Iranian director Asghar Farhadi won the Foreign Language Film Oscar in 2011 for A Separation; he stands a great chance of winning again for The Salesman, despite the fact that he won't be there to accept the award, as he's protesting Trump's proposed travel ban on Muslim countries.

Asghar Farhadi's latest film, selected to open the 71st Cannes Film Festival, is another of the Iranian director's studies in troubled families and fractured relationships.

In Abbas Kiarostami's arresting 1990 drama Close - Up, the director created a half - documentary, half - dramatized account of Hossein Sabzian's attempted impersonation of Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf, combining real footage of Sabzian's trial with reenactments of true - life events starring the people who were really involved.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf's follow - up to the internationally acclaimed GABBEH finds the Iranian director delving deeper into a self - reflexive mode of filmmaking that explores the knotty relationships between art and truth and truth and reality through the recreation of a

This ambitious black comedy is the first English - language film from Marjane Satrapi, the French - Iranian director of 2007's Oscar - nominated animation Persepolis.

They were not the only films to break out; one of the others that managed to cultivate quite a bit of excitement was the first English language film from Iranian director Marjane Satrapi, whose Persepolis thrust the spotlight upon her back in 2007.

The Iranian director presents his first Spanish language film, which stars Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem.

Banned Iranian Director Jafar Panahi Gets Standing Ovation At Cannes Film Festival - A new film by Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who is banned from leaving Iran, has premiered to a standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival.

Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami takes his talents to Tokyo for this touching story of a young student / prostitute who has a fateful two days when she is sent on assignment for some companionship with a much older man.

The details: This is the latest film clandestinely made by Jafar Panahi (This Is Not A Film), the Iranian director who is officially banned from filmmaking, but keeps doing it anyway.

Iranian director Ana Lily Amirpour «s debut feature, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, is an amalgam of stylistic influences, including — but certainly not limited to — spaghetti westerns,»50s teenage movies, atmospheric horror films, and»80s Jim...

That was the case with the Iranian director's earlier works, «The Color of Heaven» and «Children of Heaven,» and it's true with his latest, «Baran.»

The magazine and its pool of critics provides a wish list for the upcoming year in film distribution with its collection of the 50 best films not released in 2011, topped by New York Film Festival hit «This Is Not a Film» by Iranian director Jafar Panahi.

Iranian director Asghar Farhadi's powerful drama is a prime example of how a smallscale domestic crisis can stand as a microcosm for a much larger crisis within society.

Like his Oscar - winning «A Separation,» Iranian director Asghar Farhadi's latest, nominated for this year's Best Foreign Language Film, is an expertly crafted domestic thriller.

For many (myself included), the work of Iranian director Asghar Farhadi was relatively unfamiliar before a little film called A Separation rode on a huge wave success; from unprecedented...

-- «The Circle» (2000): Iranian director Jafar Panahi's «The Circle» is about five women who are marginalized or sought by authorities in Iran, but he reminds viewers on this DVD that his film is not specific to one country: «People all over the world live in circles of restriction.»

In many ways, the notion of truth was what drew both Cruz and Bardem to Farhadi, the Iranian director whose last three films include two Oscar winners in the Best Foreign Language Film category: 2011's «A Separation» and 2015's «The Salesman,» both studies of families stretched to the breaking point by secrets and class and societal tensions.

«The President,» a Georgian - and English - language satire from Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf, won the top prize Friday night at the 50th Chicago International Film Festival.

Iranian director Asghar Farhadi made a great show of not turning up at the Oscars to collect his gong for The Salesman.

Banned Iranian director Jafar Panahi «s Taxi, in which the filmmaker stars as a taxi driver talking to passengers as he navigates the streets of Tehran, won the Berlinale Golden Bear for best film Saturday at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival.

At the Cannes Film Festival, Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem walked the red carpet with the Iranian director Asghar Farhadi at the opening night...

An appealing cast of aspiring young musicians ostensibly play themselves in this naive, shapeless, but often fascinating 2009 drama by Iranian director Bahman Ghobadi (Turtles...

Majidi, well - known Iranian director, has made such life - like, life - affirming films as Children Of Heaven and The Song Of Sparrow.

Despite not being there in person, Iranian director Asghar Farhadi won big at Sunday night's Oscars, taking home Best Foreign Language Film for his movie The Salesman.

Rumors abound at the Cannes Film Festival today surrounding Iranian director Jafar Panahi's imprisonment.

Organizers announced Thursday that «Everybody Knows,» by Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, will open the May 8 - 19 festival.

Iranian director Asghar Farhadi had the last laugh when The Salesman won Best Foreign Language Film.