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New clips and trailer for Asghar Farhadi's A Separation, starring Peyman Moaadi and Leila Hatami. The Sony Pictures Classics drama opens on December 30th in New York and Los Angeles, and is helmed and scripted by Asghar Farhadi (Tambourine, About Elly, Beautiful City). Also in the cast are Shahab Hosseini, Sarina Farhadi and Merila Zare'i. Set in contemporary Iran, A Separation is a compelling drama about the dissolution of a marriage. Simin wants to leave Iran with her husband Nader and daughter Termeh. Simin sues for divorce when Nader refuses to leave behind his Alzheimer-suffering father. Her request having failed, Simin returns to her parents’ home, but Termeh decides to stay with Nader.

New clips and trailer for Asghar Farhadi's A Separation, starring Peyman Moaadi and Leila Hatami. The Sony Pictures Classics drama opens on December 30th in New York and Los Angeles, and is helmed and scripted by Asghar Farhadi (Tambourine, About Elly, Beautiful City). Also in the cast are Shahab Hosseini, Sarina Farhadi and Merila Zare'i. Set in contemporary Iran, A Separation is a compelling drama about the dissolution of a marriage. Simin wants to leave Iran with her husband Nader and daughter Termeh. Simin sues for divorce when Nader refuses to leave behind his Alzheimer-suffering father. Her request having failed, Simin returns to her parents’ home, but Termeh decides to stay with Nader.

New clips and trailer for Asghar Farhadi's A Separation, starring Peyman Moaadi and Leila Hatami. The Sony Pictures Classics drama opens on December 30th in New York and Los Angeles, and is helmed and scripted by Asghar Farhadi (Tambourine, About Elly, Beautiful City). Also in the cast are Shahab Hosseini, Sarina Farhadi and Merila Zare'i. Set in contemporary Iran, A Separation is a compelling drama about the dissolution of a marriage. Simin wants to leave Iran with her husband Nader and daughter Termeh. Simin sues for divorce when Nader refuses to leave behind his Alzheimer-suffering father. Her request having failed, Simin returns to her parents’ home, but Termeh decides to stay with Nader.

2 new clips from Sony Pictures Classics A Separation, directed by Asghar Farhadi. Stars Peyman Moaadi an Leila Hatami. Winner of the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival's Golden Bear Award for Best Film, the Persian drama helmed by Asghar Farhadi opens on December 30th in New York and Los Angeles. Also in the cast of A Separation are Sareh Bayat, Shahab Hosseini, Sarina Farhadi and Merila Zare'i. We have 2 clips in standard and high definition from film set in in contemporary Iran which is a compelling drama is about the dissolution of a marriage. Simin wants to leave Iran with her husband Nader and daughter Termeh. Simin sues for divorce when Nader refuses to leave behind his Alzheimer-suffering father. Her request having failed, Simin returns to her parents’ home, but Termeh decides to stay with Nader.

2 new clips from Sony Pictures Classics A Separation, directed by Asghar Farhadi. Stars Peyman Moaadi an Leila Hatami. Winner of the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival's Golden Bear Award for Best Film, the Persian drama helmed by Asghar Farhadi opens on December 30th in New York and Los Angeles. Also in the cast of A Separation are Sareh Bayat, Shahab Hosseini, Sarina Farhadi and Merila Zare'i. We have 2 clips in standard and high definition from film set in in contemporary Iran which is a compelling drama is about the dissolution of a marriage. Simin wants to leave Iran with her husband Nader and daughter Termeh. Simin sues for divorce when Nader refuses to leave behind his Alzheimer-suffering father. Her request having failed, Simin returns to her parents’ home, but Termeh decides to stay with Nader.

This powerful, complex Iranian drama centres on a conflict that cuts across boundaries of gender and class

An unhappily married couple break up in this complex, painful, fascinating Iranian drama by writer-director Asghar Farhadi, with explosive results that expose a network of personal and social faultlines. A Separation is a portrait of a fractured relationship and an examination of theocracy, domestic rule and the politics of sex and class – and it reveals a terrible, pervasive sadness that seems to well up through the asphalt and the brickwork. In its depiction of national alienation in Iran, it's comparable to the work of Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof. But there is a distinct western strand. The film shows a middle-class household under siege from an angry outsider; there are semi-unsolved mysteries, angry confrontations and family burdens: an ageing parent and two children from warring camps appearing to make friends. All these things...