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12/10/2011
+A Separation+, Second Best 2011 Film
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Tehran, Dec 8, 2011: The international film magazine, Sight and Sound has selected Asghar Farhadi+s A Separation as the second best film of the year.
Tehran, Dec 8, 2011: The international film magazine, Sight and Sound has selected Asghar Farhadi+s A Separation as the second best film of the year.
Nader and Simin: A Separation ranks second after Terrence Malick+s Tree of Life, The Daily reported.
Critics also announced The Kid with a Bike directed by the Belgian directors Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne as the third best 2011 film.
About 100 critics and curators voted on the films to introduce the 2011 top ten movies and cinematic highlights.
Farhadi+s critically acclaimed production Nader and Simin: A Separation has also entered the Best Foreign film line-up of the International Press Academy (IPA) Satellite Awards.
The New York Times has predicted that Farhadi+s latest drama will win the 2012 Best Foreign Film Oscar.
The 2011 New York Film Critics Circle Awards recently granted its Best Foreign Film award to A Separation.
The award-sweeper family drama has also been nominated for the Best International Film award of the 2011 Film Independent Spirit Awards (FINDIE).
Farhadi+s film also won the best film honor of the 2011 Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA), the Golden Bear Award of the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival as well as the event+s Silver Bears for the entire male and female cast ensemble.
The Golden Arena prize of Croatia+s 2011 Pula Film Festival, and the Best Feature Film and the Best Screenplay awards of the 32nd Durban International Film Festival are also among the international honors of Farhadi+s production.
A Separation had the most successful screening in France, where it was welcomed by more than 800, 000 film lovers and was called +the summer+s surprise+ by the Le Monde newspaper.
The DVD edition of the film has been offered from November 8, 2011, for €19.95 in different French cities.
The audience favorite at this year+s Berlin Film Festival also hit the screens in Belgium, the Netherlands and Thailand over the past 4 months, and was also screened in the Unites States in September and October 2011.
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