Asghar Farhadi to preside over the Sarajevo jury
- The Iranian filmmaker will be the president of the feature-film competition jury at the 24th Sarajevo Film Festival
The Sarajevo Film Festival has announced that Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi will be the president of its Competition Programme - Feature Film jury at its 24th edition.
Sarajevo audiences will have a chance to see Farhadi’s latest film, Everybody Knows [+see also:
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Farhadi's first feature, Dancing in the Dust, won two awards at the 25th Moscow Film Festival. However, it was his fourth film, About Elly, that brought him international fame after it won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 2007 Berlinale.
With his next film, A Separation, he won the Golden Bear at the 2010 Berlinale, as well as two Silver Bears for the two main actors. A Separation went on to win Best Foreign-language Film Awards at the Golden Globes, Césars and Oscars.
After moving to Paris, he made The Past [+see also:
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In 2015, Farhadi returned to Iran to make The Salesman [+see also:
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This year, the Sarajevo Film Festival is set to run from 10-17 August.
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