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Director: Asghar Farhadi
Runtime: 127 minutes
Country: Iran, France
Language: Persian with English subtitles
Rating: PG
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Awards
ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING
Asia Pacific Screen Awards 2021
GRAND PRIX
Cannes Film Festival 2021
Full Synopsis
In the city of Shiraz, Rahim, a mild-mannered calligrapher is in prison for an unpaid debt. While on a two-day leave, his lover presents him a bag of gold coins that she found on a bus. However, when the coins prove insufficient to his creditor, his mounting desperation to clear his name and secure his release unwittingly thrusts him into the limelight as he is caught in a confounding web of fame, deceit and moral ambiguity.
In the age of social media, Asghar Farhadi’s newest work is a layered treatise on the malleability of truth and the precariousness of individual agency.
Showtimes
Friday, 21 January 2022, 8pm
Saturday, 29 January 2022, 8pm
Sunday, 6 February 2022, 5pm
Wednesday, 9 February 2022, 8pm
Sunday, 13 February 2022, 5pm
Saturday, 19 February 2022, 8pm
Saturday, 26 February 2022, 4pm
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