A Separation
انفصال
Asghar Farhadi's Oscar-winning film about a Tehran divorce entangled with a religious-legal dispute — Qur'anic oaths and piety at the centre of the moral dilemma.
At a glance
- Identifiers
- Wikidataimdbofficialelcinema
- Review
- Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
Family, marriage and kinshipReligious authoritiesThe poor and the worker
Screening Room
- Format
- Film · Muslim history or life carries the story
- Released
- 2011 CE · 1432 AH†
- Countries
- IR
- Languages
- fa (original)
- Approach
- drama of Muslim life
- Depiction of sacred figures
- The Prophet: Not applicable · Companions: Not applicable · Imams: Not applicable
- Titles in other languages
- جدایی نادر از سیمینA Separationانفصال
Reception
- Award — Academy Award for Best International Feature FilmHistorical
- Award. Golden Bear
- Award. Silver Bear for Best Actress
- Award. Silver Bear for Best Actor
- Award. César Award for Best Foreign Film
- Award. Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
- Award. Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Feature Film
Where to watch officially: No official link recorded. · Listed, not endorsed.
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Connections
- Features
- Sareh Bayat· Leila Hatami· Payman Maadi· Shahab Hosseini· Sarina Farhadi· Merila Zarei· Shirin Yazdanbakhsh· Babak Karimi
- Directed by
- Asghar Farhadi
- Written by
- Asghar Farhadi
People and things also explored
Waris· Taj Mahal· The Arabs and their peoples before Islam· Arab naming of children after plants· The economic condition of the Arabs before Islam· The ethics of the new community in Medina· Sending infants to Bedouin wet-nurses· Jāhilī Marriage Forms
Sources
- Wikidata
- IMDb
- elCinema
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “A Separation”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/screen/infisal-2011/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.