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Golshifteh Farahani To Receive Locarno’s Excellence Award
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Golshifteh Farahani To Receive Locarno’s Excellence Award
Golshifteh Farahani will be feted at Locarno with the Excellence Award Davide Campari. Farahani will be handed the award on August 6. She will also present her latest film, Julia Ducournau’s Alpha, at the festival. Born in Tehran in 1983, Farahani’s breakthrough role was in Dariush Mehrjui’s The Pear Tree (1998), which won her the […]
As a child, Golshifteh Farahani witnessed the Ayatollah regime hit men burning books in the streets of Tehran, Iran. “My father had a library full of works banned by mullahs, foreign novels and political essays such as those of Karl Marx; and I, at the age of 12, was able to read the full version of ‘One Hundred Years of Loneliness’,” she recalls. “Tranians are very likely to burn literature, because they understand that a population that does n…
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