“A SEPARATION could hardly be more concrete, or contemporary, or dramatic.” - Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
“Beyond the impeccable performances and direction, it's foremost an exceptional piece of screenwriting, so finely wrought that the drama seems guided by an invisible hand.” - Scott Tobias, AV Club
Monday, February 10, 5:45 p.m. | Presented originally at the Film Center in 2011, A SEPARATION, which won the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, followed a tradition of the Film Center showcasing Farhadi’s work. When first presented, Barbara Scharres wrote, “A SEPARATION is a deftly plotted drama in which small evasions and white lies yield devastating consequences when two families of differing classes clash over seemingly irreparable wrongs. A couple seeks a divorce so that she may emigrate with their young daughter, but, with the divorce denied, they separate. An escalating series of disasters grows from the husband’s fateful decision to hire the wife of an unemployed shoemaker as the caregiver for his elderly Alzheimer’s-stricken father.”
Awards & Nominations
Winner - Best International Film, Academy Awards
Nominee - Best Original Screenplay, Academy Awards
Winner - Golden Bear, Berlin Film Festival
Winner - Silver Bear, Best Actor (Payman Maadi, Shahab Hosseini, Ali-Asghar Shahbazi, Babak Karimi), Berlin Film Festival
Festival of Films from Iran: For the 36th year of our Festival of Films from Iran, we’re taking the opportunity to look back at some of the highlights of Iranian cinema we’ve presented at the Film Center—during the festival and year round— in the last 36 years. Read more
The Film Center is ADA accessible. This presentation will be projected without open captions. The theater is hearing-loop equipped. For accessibility requests, please email filmcenter@saic.edu