24-04-2025
Asghar Farhadi Sets Paris-Shot Film ‘Parallel Tales' With Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Efira, Vincent Cassel, Pierre Niney & Adam Bessa
Asghar Farhadi will shoot his next film Parallel Tales in Paris this coming fall, with Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Efira, Vincent Cassel, Pierre Niney and Adam Bessa in the cast.
It is the Oscar-winning Iranian director's first feature since A Hero, which won the Grand Prix at Cannes in 2021.
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Parallel Tales marks Farhadi's second French-language film after The Past with Tahar Rahim and Berenice Bejo, who won Best Actress award for her performance at Cannes in 2013.
The feature will be produced by Alexandre Mallet-Guy alongside Farhadi and David Levine. Mallet-Guy has worked with Farhadi on all of his films starting with and since The Past, having originally connected with the director as the French distributor of his earlier titles including About Elly and A Separation.
The film is an official French-Italian-Belgian coproduction between Mallet-Guy's Memento Production in France, Andrea Occhipinti's Lucky Red in Italy, and André Logie's Panache Productions and Gaëtan David's La Compagnie Cinématographique in Belgium. Anonymous Content in the US will also co-produce the film.
Charades and UTA Independent Film Group will launch the film at the Cannes Film Festival. Charades will handle international sales, while UTA Independent Film Group will rep U.S. rights. Memento will handle distribution in France.
The film is set for theatrical release in France in the spring of 2026.
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