Prime Video releases trailer of Iran’s ‘A Hero’

Amazon Prime Video has released a trailer for ‘A Hero’ made by celebrated Iranian director Asghar Farhadi.

The movie is about Rahim, a working-class man separated from his first wife, with whom he has a stuttering young son, who has spent three years incarcerated for defaulting on a debt, but is given leave for two days, during which he tries to turn around his fortunes, but quickly finds himself caught in a web of white lies.

Most recently the 14th Asia Pacific Screen Awards nominated ‘A Hero’ in four categories of best film, best director, best screenplay, and best actor (Amir Jadidi).

Set to open the Ajyal Film Festival in Qatar and compete at the Sydney Film Festival in Australia, the movie has so far toured a wide range of the most prominent global galas, including the Hamptons International Film Festival in the US, the Mostra-Sao Paulo International Film Festival in Brazil, the Montclair Film Festival in the US, and the Film Festival Cologne in Germany, the Busan International Film Festival in South Korea, the Adana Golden Boll International Film Festival in Turkey, the Zurich Film Festival in Switzerland, and the Cannes Film Festival in France, where it won the Grand Prix.

Famous cineastes such as Amir Jadidi, Mohsen Tanabandeh, Fereshteh Sadr-Orafaee, and Sarina Farhadi are on the cast list of ‘A Hero’.

The renowned cinematic magazine Variety predicted ‘A Hero’ as a potential movie to win the award for the best film at the Oscars 2022 following being selected as Iran’s entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 2022 Academy Awards.

The Hollywood Reporter already predicted ‘A Hero’ to be Iran’s submission for the next edition of the Academy Awards.

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