Mandwa Film Club organized the film screening at 'Pakistan National Institute for Folk and Traditional Heritage' (Lok Virsa) media center in Islamabad.
Released in 2016, ‘The Sales man’ is directed by Asghar Farhadi. The film is about a married couple who perform Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman on stage, when the wife is assaulted.
Her husband attempts to determine the identity of the attacker, while she struggles to cope with post-trauma stress. Farhadi chose Miller’s play as his story within a story based on shared themes.
A co-production between Iran and France, the film was shot in Tehran, beginning in 2015.
The film premiered in competition in the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, where it won two awards—Best Screenplay for Farhadi and Best Actor for Shahab Hosseini. The Salesman went on to receive more positive reviews, and won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
The Mandwa film club of Lok Virsa is an initiative taken by the institute to revive the classical cinema in the cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi.
The Mandwa club screens national and international classical hits, including Iranian films on every weekend and invite audience from all walks of life to entertain them as well as engage them in cultural programs.
Earlier, Pakistan National Council of Arts (PNCA) Film Club Coordinator Aijaz Gul, told IRNA that Iranian movies always attract crowd when screened in Pakistan.
He said as there is a lot of good will among the Pakistani people towards the brotherly country of Iran the people like and enjoy Iranian movies.
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Islamabad, Dec 16, IRNA - An Iranian classic film, ‘The Sales man’ was screened in Pakistani capital and warmly welcomed by good number of audience on Sunday.
