'Farhadi deemed Oscar 2018 frontrunner'

International film industry website IndieWire reveals hopefuls for 2019 foreign language Oscar race with Asghar Farhadi’s new offering included.

IndieWire unveils the 2019 Oscars prediction list in the category of Best Foreign Language Film with famed Iranian director Farhadi’s ‘Everybody Knows’ deemed a potential frontrunner.

The other titles regarded as frontrunners hail from Lebanon, Japan, Italy and Poland.

The trade website praised Farhadi’s work as a “movie played well in France after Cannes,” adding the flick “could be submitted by either Spain or Iran.”

Iranian director's film 'Everybody Knows' went on screen to inaugurate the 2018 edition of Cannes Film Festival.

Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi's psychological thriller played at the opening of the 71st Cannes Film Festival on May 8, 2018.

The movie explores family intrigues and the moral dilemmas of a woman whose life is turned upside down when she returns from Argentina to her native village in Spain with her husband and children.

Starring Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz, Everybody Knows (Todos Lo Saben) is Farhadi's first movie in Spanish.

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