Roman Theater of Fiesole in Italy to honor Asghar Farhadi

Iranian director Asghar Farhadi has been selected to receive Fiesole Maestri del Cinema Award in Italy.

Roman Theater of Fiesole in the Italian city of Florence will honor the Iranian Oscar-winning director with the 2022 edition of the award during a special ceremony on Saturday evening.

Filmmakers such as Paolo Sorrentino, Giuseppe Tornatore, Terry Gilliam, Luchino Visconti, Orson Welles, Stanley Kubrick, Ingmar Bergman and Ken Loach have previously received the award, which is given by the Municipality of Florence in collaboration with the National Syndicate of Critici Cinematografici Italiani Group Toscano and the Fondazione Sistema Toscana.

Farhadi’s Oscar-winning movie ‘A Separation’ will be screened after presenting the award to him.

In addition, ‘Le Verità Nascoste: Il Cinema di Asghar Farhadi’ (‘The Hidden Truths: Asghar Farhadi’s cinema’), a book written by Italian scholar Simone Emiliani will be introduced during the ceremony.

Earlier in June, Fiesole Mayor Anna Ravoni said, “I am happy to present the 2022 edition of the Fiesole Prize to the Masters of Cinema, which represents a milestone in the history of our event.”

“This year the Prize wanted to broaden its gaze, opening up to the Middle East and we can only be proud of this,” she added.

She noted, “In fact, with the exception of Akira Kurosawa in 1986, the masters who have been on the stage of the Roman Theater of Fiesole up until now have all been either European or American.”

Florence is currently paying tribute to Farhadi with a retrospective of his work in the Piazzale degli Uffizi.

Among some of his movies, selected to be screened in the open-air retrospective underway in the dramatic setting of the historical site of the city, are ‘Everybody Knows’, ‘The Salesman’, and ‘A Hero’.

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