Description
Simin wants to leave Iran with her husband, Nader, and their daughter to build a better life abroad. Nader refuses to go, unwilling to leave behind his elderly father who has Alzheimer’s disease. When Simin moves out and Nader hires a caregiver, a small incident sets in motion a chain of events that draws two families into conflict, forcing everyone, including the audience, to weigh truth, duty and moral responsibility against one another.
Written and directed by Asghar Farhadi and starring Leila Hatami, Peyman Maadi and Shahab Hosseini, A Separation (2011) won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Farhadi is one of only a handful of directors to have won that award twice and one of the most significant filmmakers working today.
Fifteen years on, this remains one of the finest films of the 21st century.
A Separation (2011) is in Persian (Farsi), with English subtitles.
Runtime: 123 minutes.
This film is part of a season exploring Iranian cinema.
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