The film had competed with five other movies at the event running in the Lebanese coastal city from January 17 to 22.

“Dry Hot Summers” by Sherif El Bendary from Egypt received the Public Award and “Un Paese Di Calabria” by Shu Aiello and Catherine Catella won the award for best documentary. The film is a co-production of France, Switzerland and Italy.

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Starring Leila Hatami, the film is about Mina who is recently divorced from her drug addict husband. With her mother deceased and estranged from her father, she leads an independent life. After finding a job in a restaurant, she strikes up a friendship with its attentive manager. She starts having feelings she has never before experienced. These feelings, eventually shared, are shaken when the manager begins to distance himself from her. Thus commences a tumultuous emotional journey.

“Subdued” was selected as best film at the 11th Celebration of Iranian Cinema Critics and Screenwriters in August 2017.

Other films competing in the official section are “Ali, the Goat, and Ibrahim” by Sherif El Bendary and “Kiss Me Not” by Ahmed Amer, both from Egypt, “Happy Birthday” by Christos Georgiou from Greece, “The Dionti Family” by Alan Minas from Brazil and “The Flower of Aleppo” by Ridha Behi from Tunisia.

The festival will be running until January 22.

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“Ferrari” by Alireza Davudnejad will go on screen at the opening ceremony of the festival on Friday, while “Subdued” by Hamid Nematollah will be screened at the closing ceremony on November 19.

“No Date, No Signature” by Vahid Jalilvand, “Negar” by Rambod Javan, “Yellow” by Mostafa Taqizadeh, “Azar” by Mohammad Hamzei and “Sara and Aida” by Maziar Miri are among the films.

“Israfil” by Ida Panahandeh, “Kupal” by Kazem Mollai, “Blockage” by Mohsen Qarai, “Appendix” by Hossein Namazi, “Boarding Pass” by Mehdi Rahmani and “Untaken Paths” by Tahmineh Milani have also been selected to be screened at the event.

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“Asghar Farhadi’s Iranian tale of feuding parents in the midst of a divorce and the impact on their child may have won the director a well-deserved Oscar, but Leila Hatami deserved one, too,” the IndieWire wrote about Farhadi’s A Separation and Hatami’s performance in the film.

“She plays a woman keen on escaping the country’s oppressive laws by fleeing elsewhere, and when her husband won’t budge, she decides to move on anyway. The courts stand in her way — but that’s just the start of their problems, as a showdown with hired help takes a grim turn that complicates the family’s conundrums on a whole new level,” it added.

“Hatami gives the movie a commanding center as a determined woman keen on taking control of her surroundings even as they slowly close in on her. She exudes desperation but never takes it to histrionic extremes,” the report said.

“Much about the success of the performance extends from frustrated glances and baffled reactions as the court and other accusers continue to heap discomfort on her life. However, her resilience adds a transcendent dimension to the role on par with Farhadi’s nuanced script. She’s the key engine in the movie’s rage against the system,” the IndieWire noted.

During her 20-year acting career, Hatami has played in over 30 films and two TV series and won awards at local and international festivals.

She has served as a jury member in several foreign film events, like the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.

Juliette Binoche for her performance in ‘Certified Copy’ directed by the famous Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami (1940-2016) is also included in the website’s list with no particular order or numbering.

Kirsten Dunst for her performance in ‘Melancholia’, Scarlett Johansson for ‘Under the Skin’, Emmanuelle Riva for the French movie ‘Amour’, and Marion Cotillard for ‘La Vie En Rose’ are some other famous actresses on the list.

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