‘A Hero’ to screen at New Horizons filmfest

Asghar Farhadi’s ‘A Hero’ is set to hit the screen at the New Horizons International Film Festival in Poland.

The internationally recognized movie will be among the screening titles at the OPPO Gala of the Polish fest’s 21st edition.

Rahim, a calligrapher and artist, is jailed for a debt he could not pay back. Once he gets a home leave of two days, he pays a visit to his stuttering child and his speech therapy instructor, Farkhondeh.

Farkhondeh offers to Rahim to sell the gold coins she has found to pay off his debt and release from the prison.

He weighs up the situation and finds out that the gold coins are not enough so he plans to buy people’s sympathy by faking being a good guy.

Rahim now will act as a hero who is on the search to find the owner of the gold coins.

Fereshteh Sadr-Orafaei, Amir Jadidi, Mohsen Tanabandeh and Farhadi’s young daughter Sarina are among the cast members of the Cannes Grand Prix winning feature film.

Launched in 2001, the New Horizons Film Festival is an international event held annually in July and/or August in Wrocław, Poland.

It is one of the biggest and most popular film festivals in Poland. The festival mainly presents art-house cinema. The most important from the several competitions held at the festival is the "New horizons international competition".

It aims to present bold, unconventional and uncompromising films that are searching for the new forms of expression – "the new horizons of cinema".

The 21st edition of the event is scheduled for August 12-22, 2021.

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