Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi has announced their next filmfour years after winning the Cannes Grand Prix 2021. The Oscar-winning director will rore ”Parallel stories“Also known as” parallel stories “, with Isabelle Huppert and Vincent Cassel game. Farhadi will begin production in Paris in the fall of 2025, with an edition in France planned for spring 2026.
“Parallel tales”, which will be a French -speaking film, Farhadi will return to France after he previously filmed 2013’s “The Past” there. The “Parallel Tales” castings mark the first collaboration between iconic French stars Huppert and Cassel, which will also be united by Virginie Efira, Pierre Niney, Catherine Deneuve and “Ghost Trail” Breakout Adam Bessa. No other details on the site are available right now.
The film will be an official French-Italian-Belgian co-production between Alexandre Mallet-Guy’s Memento production in France, Andrea Occhipintis Lucky Red in Italy, and André Logies Panache Productions and Gaëtan David’s La Compagnie Cinématography.
Anonymous content in the United States will also produce the film. Farhadi and David Levine produce. Carole Baraton, Yohann Comte, Pierre Mazars, Yousra Filali, Stefano Massenzi, Chadwick Prichard, Krzysztof Piesiewicz, Maciej Musial and Lila Yacoub are executive producers.
“Parallel tales” will be launched as a sales title during the 2025 Film Festival, with Chafades, which handles international sales and UTA Independent Film Group for US rights. Memento is already distributing the film in France.
This is the fifth collaboration in a row between Farhadi and Memento Productions. The previous features include 2014’s “The Past”, 2016’s “The Salesman”, 2018’s “Everybody Knows” and 2021’s “A Hero.”
Farhadis Golden Globe-nominated “a hero” was a part of a plagiarism application After one of Farhadi’s former students, Azadeh Masihzadeh, claimed that Farhadi based the film from a documentary she had made in one of his Tehran-based film workshops in 2014. Both her documentary and Farhadi’s story were inspired by a real incident 2011 where a man in Iran at Furlough himself.
“Incorrect information has been corrected,” Farhadi said in May 2022 While he serves in the jury for the Cannes Film Festival. “What is in the movie” A Hero “is different. You have to see why some journalists spread error information. What I did in” A Hero “is not related to that workshop; it is based on a current event two years before.” A hero “is an interpretation of the event. The documentary is another strategy, they are not the same at all.”
Farhadi was acquitted of an Iranian court 2024.
