Le Passé

The Past
Director
Asghar Farhadi
Country
France
Year
2013
Genre
Fiction
Scriptwriters
Asghar Farhadi
Cast
Bérénice Bejo, Tahar Rahim, Ali Mosaffa, Pauline Burlet, Elyes Aguis, Jeanne Jestin, Sabrina Ouazani
Production
Memento Films

Storyline

An Iranian man having long-term domestic problems with his French wife, deserts his wife and two children to go back to his homeland, Iran. In the mean time, his wife is seeing a French man and therefore writes to him and asks for a divorce which compels the man to come back to France, only to see his wife's new partner in his home beside his children.

Festivals & Academy awards and others

Festival de Cannes 2013
Official Competition
Winner: Best Actress (Berénice Bejo)
Toronto International Film Festival 2013
BFI London Film Festival 2013
Love Section
Gijon International Film Festival 2013
Official Section
Tetova International Film Festival-ODA 2018
Cine Retro Panorama

Cannes Awards 2013
Winner: Best Actress (Berénice Bejo)
Golden Globe Awards 2014
Nomination: BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
César 2014
Nominated

Releases

Spain (16 of April 2014)
United kingdom (28 of March 2014)
France (15 of May 2013)

Call for proposals Development
Year 2011
Call number 25/2010
Media support 60,000.00€

Company with support assignment: Memento Films Production

Call for proposals i2i Audiovisual
Media support 50,000.00€

Company with support assignment: Memento Films Production
Call for proposals EACEA 34/2012 - Deadline 07/01/2013

Call for proposals Distribution Selective
Year 2013
Call number 21/2012
Media support 415.000,00€

Selective scheme - Call 21/2012 - Deadline 01/07/2013
AT: THIMFILM GmbH
DA: GRAND TEATRET AS (Camera Film AS)
DE: CAMINO FILMVERLEIH GMBH
ES: GOLEM DISTRIBUCION SL
FI: OY CINEMA MONDO LTD
GR: SEVEN GROUP PSYHAGOGIKI AE
LE PASSE
HR: UMJETNICKA ORGANIZACIJA “ZAGREB FILM FESTIVAL” UDRUZENJE
IS: SENA EHF
IT: BIM DISTRIBUZIONE SRL
NL: CINEART NEDERLAND BV
NO: ARTHAUS STIFTELSEN FOR FILMKUNST
PL: KINO SWIAT SP. Z O.O
PT: ALAMBIQUE, DESTILARIA DE IDEIAS - UNIPESSOAL LDA
SI: DEMIURG POSREDOVANJE IN PROMOCIJA V KULTURI CVETKA FLAKUS SP
SU: FOLKETS BIO AB
UK: CURZON FILM WORLD LIMITED

Call for proposals Distribution Automatic
Year 2013
Call number 07/2012

Spain: GOLEM DISTRIBUCION SL
Belgium: CINEART SA
Germany: CAMINO FILMVERLEIH GMBH
Finland: OY CINEMA MONDO LTD
Netherlands: CINEART NEDERLAND BV
Slovakia: DEMIURG POSREDOVANJE IN PROMOCIJA V KULTURI CVETKA FLAKUS SP

Distribution:

Memento Films (France)