Iran has chosen documentary Finding Farideh, directed by Azadeh Mousavi and Kourosh Ataee, to represent it for the Oscars’ newly-dubbed International Feature Film category — formerly kn…
— formerly known as the Best Foreign Language Film race. The picture follows the titular character who travels to Iran to find her real family after having been abandoned 40 years prior and adopted by a Dutch couple. In a blog post, Eline Farideh said she was “over the moon” to be recognized with the submission.
This is the first time that a documentary is Iran’s official submission. The country has previously won the category twice, each time with a film directed by Asghar Farhadi (2011’s
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