TEHRAN-The 78th Cannes Film Festival has revealed late-breaking additions to its 2025 celebration lineup, including the brand-new movie by the Iranian filmmaker Saeed Roustayi.The competitors section movies contending for the Palme dOr have actually moved from the initial choice of 19 to 21.
Titled Woman and Child, the fourth film by Roustayi has actually signed up with the Official Selection this year, competing with Eddington by Ari Aster, Nouvelle Vague by Richard Linklater, The Phoenician Scheme by Wes Anderson, Sentimental Value by Joachim Trier, and The Young Mothers Home by Jean-Pierre & & Luc Dardenne to name a few, ILNA reported.French business Goodfellas, referred to as the Cannes whisperers, has boarded sales on this Iranian drama.
Described as a modern household drama of revenge and forgiveness, the film stars Parinaz Izadyar (Law of Tehran) as a widowed nurse battling with her rebellious child.
When an awful mishap occurs, she discovers herself challenging sensations of betrayal even as she seeks justice.Payman Maadi (Law of Tehran, A Separation) and Hassan Pourshirazi (The Old Bachelor) are likewise in the cast along with Soha Niasti, Fereshteh Sadre Orafaee, Maziar Seyedi, and Sahar Goldoost.Roustayi was nominated for the Palme dOr in 2022 for Leilas Brothers, a three-hour family legendary starring regular Asghar Farhadi partner Taraneh Alidoosti (The Salesman), Navid Mohammadzadeh (Law of Tehran), and Payman Maadi to name a few.
The motion picture won the FIPRESCI Prize at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.Saeed Roustayi, 35, is a filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer.
His works primarily focus on problems of social injustice, along with his representations of women in Iranian society.He finished from Soore University with a Bachelor of Film and Television in Directing.
He won 2 Crystal Simorgh awards for finest directing and finest movie script at the Fajr International Film Festival for his launching feature movie Life and a Day (2016 ).
The film also received the 2016 Reflet dOr for Best Feature at the Geneva International Film Festival Tous Ecrans.Roustayis second feature movie Law of Tehran (2019) was chosen for the Csar Award for Best Foreign Film.
It was well gotten by critics at the 76th Venice Film Festival and won several awards, including the Crystal Simorgh for Audience Choice of Best Film, at the 37th Fajr Film Festival.A thriller drama, Law of Tehran (likewise known as Just 6.5) was consisted of in the list of 50 best movies released in the UK in 2023 by The GuardianThe 78th Cannes Film Festival will be held from May 13 to 24.
Prominent French actress Juliette Binoche will act as jury president for the main competitors.
The Honorary Palme dOr will be granted to the celebrated actor Robert De Niro throughout the festivals opening ceremony.One day after the announcement of the ACID authorities choice (a parallel area of the Cannes), Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassouna one of the primary subjects of the documentary film Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk by Sepideh Farsi, was eliminated along with 10 members of her household in an Israeli airstrike on their home in Gaza City on April 16.
The festival released a main statement expressing acknowledgements and slamming the ongoing violence in Gaza.SS/ SAB.
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