Iran’s ‘A Hero’ among potential Oscars winning movies

The renowned cinematic magazine Variety has guessed Iranian ‘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 movie is one step closer to bringing another honor from the Oscars to its celebrated director Asghar Farhadi.

Variety recently published the potential candidates for the Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars.

The website of the magazine has mentioned the names and characteristics of the movies with the best chances to win the awards in 2022. According to the magazine, the Iranian movie is one of the best chances.

"It shouldn’t be a shocker that an international feature from Asghar Farhadi has entered the awards conversation with the vivacious and flavorful ‘A Hero’,” the website wrote.

Variety interviewed Farhadi on the sidelines of the Cannes Film Festival, where he said: “From time to time in the news in Iran you get stories about very average people who in their daily lives do something that is very altruistic. And that humane way of making them very noticeable in society for a few days, and then they are forgotten. The story of the rise and fall of these kinds of people was really what interested me.”

“How the Iranian filmmaker chooses to frame his stories has always been compelling, and it’s a quality that has been overlooked by the Academy in his tenure. Perhaps, this could be his ticket to an overdue directing nomination,” the Variety also noted.

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

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 compete at the Sydney Film Festival in Australia and vying at the Mostra-Sao Paulo International Film Festival in Brazil, the Montclair Film Festival in the US, and the Film Festival Cologne in Germany, 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 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’.

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