A Separation

Family and domestic story that surprised and moved critics and audiences around the world to tears. The divorce of two spouses is just the beginning of the plot. For the wife (Simin), it's a done deal: she wants to leave and take their daughter with her. The husband (Nader) has no intention of leaving because he is taking care of his sick father. What happens next, we won't tell you.

This film has received almost sixty international festival awards, including an Oscar (the first in the history of Iranian cinema) and three Berlin Bears. "A Separation," which plays out like a Hitchcockian detective story, also attracts the Western world by reflecting familiar, i.e. universal, traits in an exotic Iranian.