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The Salesman, directed by Asghar Farhadi, won the Oscars for Best Foreign Film at the 89th Academy Awards
Rounding off the favourites were Asghar Farhadi's The Salesman, a taut moral drama by the Iranian director of the Oscar-winning A Separation, and Paul Verhoeven's rape revenge fantasy Elle starring Isabelle Huppert
Oscar winning Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi's The Past drew a keen audience, which remained glued to their seats till almost 11 pm on Monday and stood in unison to applaud the director's vision behind the film, screened at the Mumbai Film Festival.
A host of foreign film dignitaries, including director Bruce Beresford, French actress Nathalie Baye, Japanese actor-director Masato Harada and Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, along with acclaimed Indian actress Konkona Sen Sharma, are on the jury of the 15th Mumbai Film Festival (MFF).