‘A Hero’ competing at Bengaluru filmfest hosts

Iranian feature ‘A Hero’ has been screening at the Bengaluru International Film Festival (BIFFES) in India.

Asghar Farhadi’s award-winning movie is currently vying at the 13th edition of the Indian event.

‘A Hero’ 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.

The movie has toured a wide range of the most prominent global galas, including the Sydney Film Festival in Australia, 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.

The National Board of Review in the US named ‘A Hero’ the Best Foreign Language Film and the movie also won the Best Original Screenplay.

The Asia Pacific Screen Awards in Australia gave the achievement in directing prize to Farhadi for the movie.

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

The 13th edition of the BIFFES has different sections, including contemporary world cinema and Asian cinema competition.

According to the official website of the festival, “it will also host various sessions for the academic interactions/discourse on different aspects of Filmmaking & Film Appreciation, through Seminars, Workshops, Masterclasses, etc.”

The current edition of the BIFFES will run until March 10, 2022.

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