Golshifteh Farahani President of the Jury of the Deauville Festival
This 51st edition of the Deauville American Cinema Festival will take place from September 5 to 14.
After a trip to the Cannes Film Festival to present the next Julia Ducournau, Alphawhere the actress embodies one of the main roles alongside Tahar Rahim, Golshifteh Farahani will also go to the north of France, in Deauville. She Chairs the 51st edition of the American Cinema Festival and succeeds Benoît Magimel. Honored to receive The Franco-Iranian actress and singerthe festival organizers are expressed in a press release:
“Golshifteh Farahani has put on the screen such a numerous causes and so many figures of the audacity, that it has become a symbol and a standard of women’s freedom, but it is body and soul that it plays its life every day with intensity.”
Indeed, this talented musician and theater passionate is revealed at the age of 14 In The pear tree by Dariush Mehrjui and then shoots nearly 20 films in ten years, including About Elly by Asghar Farhadi, his first big role in the cinema. His career in the International flourished in 2008 with His role in the thriller State lies from Ridley Scottthus becoming The first Iranian actress to play in Hollywood production Since the 1979 Revolution. She has been running without hijab, an act of freedom that requires her to flee her native country and settle in France. Since then, we have seen him appear in several American productions, as Paterson by Jim Jarmusch or in the last part of Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s revenge.
Lolita in Tehran: “We are proud to be Iranian”
She embodies poignant female rolesfor whom freedom is the watchword: she is a Kurdish fighter in The girls of the sun of Eva Husson or university professor for Read Lolita in Tehranin which “She brilliantly expresses how the body of women was the first victim of the Iranian Revolution of 79”.
Golshifteh Farahani is the very first name unveiled by the Deauville festival, which will take place From September 5 to 14, next.
