The winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes 2021 is competing with 14 other films.
Two-time Oscar-winning Iranian producer Asghar Farhadi’s latest film A Hero has made the Oscars shortlist for Best International Feature Film after a Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Language Film earlier this month.
The film, Farhadi’s fourth, had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year where it won the Grand Prix. It will be released in US theatres on January 7 before it launches online on Amazon Prime Video on January 21.
A Hero tells the story of Rahim, a traditional sign-maker imprisoned for an unpaid debt. During a two-day period of leave, he tries to convince his creditor to withdraw his complaint, but things do not go as planned.
Farhadi won an Oscar in 2012 for A Separation, becoming the first Iranian film to win the award. In 2017, he won the Academy Award again for The Salesman.
