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A Separation

Drama

Directed by Asghar Farhadi

A married couple are faced with a difficult decision – to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease. From TMDB

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A Separation is a 2011 drama film, directed by Asghar Farhadi, starring Payman Maadi, Leila Hatami and Shahab Hosseini.

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  • Steve Peters @stevep10.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 18, 2025

    Double dipping here but I watched the movie “A Separation”. This is at worst a top 5 movie for me knocking some teenage nostalgia down some pegs. www.imdb.com/title/tt1832...

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  • Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 14, 2024

    Watched CONCLAVE last night. A testament to how well-constructed thrillers with strong acting can make any subject suspenseful and engaging. I regularly teach Asghar Farhadi’s A SEPARATION which works similarly (even more powerfully, IMO). My students often marvel how that film hooks them!

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  • Sara Michelle Fetters @moviefreaksara.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 5, 2026

    What's your favorite movie from each decade of your life? 70s - Star Wars 80s - Ran 90s - Strange Days 00s - Bright Star 10s - A Separation 20s - I Saw the TV Glow

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  • rebesaurusrex.bsky.social @rebesaurusrex.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 10, 2025

    #letterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #filmsky #moviesky Children of the Corn might be the worst movie I've ever seen. Death Becomes Her definitely shows its age but my childhood memories remain fond. And A Separation is a masterpiece I'm going to be thinking about for weeks

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  • Navneet Alang @navneetalang.comBluesky · Sep 11, 2025

    From time to time, I find myself thinking about the film “A Separation.” Time moves in one direction and, bit by bit, word by word, act by act, certain things become irrevocable.

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  • MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.socialBluesky · May 7, 2025

    HBD Asghar Farhadi!!! MCCT5: 5)About Elly 4)Beautiful City 3)A Separation 2)Fireworks Wednesday 1)The Past [NB: new film, Parallel Tales w/Isabelle Huppert, in pre-production: variety.com/2025/film/ne... Our Farhadi appreciation, via @bostonreview.bsky.social: www.bostonreview.net/articles/sec...

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  • Scot @hangthadj.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 24, 2025

    Thank you for including A Separation. A total masterpiece of a film.

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  • The Ron-ting of Hill House @grandrevans.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 22, 2025

    Handful of book/film recommendations for the current moment: -Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi -Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (book or film) -A Separation (2011) directed by Asghar Farhadi -Circumstance (2011) directed by Maryam Keshavarz -A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle

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  • Hecate @calamityz.oneBluesky · Oct 30, 2026

    the ambiguous elements of the situation, to us, echoed Farhadi's A Separation, a movie that is much more concise and focused we found everything else about it to be sort of rote and repetitive. and we feel bad saying this but those child actors? no good

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  • Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 23, 2026

    Showed my mom A SEPARATION. What a great movie, so full of life and humanity.

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  • B @brigidgallagher.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 19, 2025

    Marjane Satrapi. Love the film Persepolis. Nasim Pedrad. Christiane Amanpour. Also all of the brilliant actors in the film, A Separation.

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  • WOLFGIRL WEEKEND @possumskull.didelphis.orgBluesky · Oct 29, 2025

    i love that my therapist gives me movie recs, like oh you're watching some Kiarostami amd Panahi films, have you seen anything by Farhadi? Check out "A Separation" or "About Elly"

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  • Anime Trivia Galore @animetriviagalore.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 13, 2025

    #filmsky #movies #promosky Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order, gifs only. Day 18: A Separation

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  • Steve Dunn @stevedunnauthor.ukBluesky · Feb 29, 2024

    February's MOVIE WATCHING HIGHLIGHTS: Raiders of the Lost Ark (Soderbergh Silent B&W version 1981/2014) ★★★★★ Anatomy of a Fall (2023) ★★★★½ A Separation (2011) ★★★★½ Ema (2019) ★★★★½ Reviews and other Feb films here: letterboxd.com/stevied/film...

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  • optiMSTie @optimstie.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 11, 2023

    Not the strongest year for film, granted, but there was some sweet stuff there. If it not The Muppets, I would've gone with Attack the Block, A Separation (ASGHAR FARHADI, WHAT), Hugo, The Raid, Source Code, Drive, The Artist, or The Cabin in the Woods with the asterisk that Joss Whedon is garbage.

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  • Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 3, 2025

    First-watches of July: Scenes from a Marriage (Bergman, 1973) Do the Right Thing (Lee, 1989) A Separation (Farhadi, 2011) Inherent Vice (Anderson, 2014) *Ratings and Short Reviews in Alt-Text*

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  • Spookably UnAwake @lamentablyawake.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 26, 2025

    I think everyone should watch A Separation because it is a very good film but they should also watch it to show Iranians are people too.

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  • jrock16c.bsky.social @jrock16c.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 24, 2025

    biggest cuts to me are: A Separation, Edge of Tomorrow (first movie in theaters I saw with Lana), Magic Mike XXL (elite experience as one of only like 3 dudes in the theater), Miami Vice, Margaret (only seen this once, that's on me), Parasite

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  • Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 23, 2025

    “A Separation” is my favorite film of the last 25 years. It draws the viewer into a web of consequences where each perspective is partial and no resolution is entirely satisfying.

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  • Gareth @chibiabos83.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 10, 2025

    Favourite film from every decade: 20s Sherlock Jr. 30s Way Out West 40s The Shop Around the Corner 50s 12 Angry Men 60s If.... 70s Le Souffle au coeur 80s Fanny and Alexander 90s Election 00s Still Walking 10s A Separation 20s Past Lives #FilmSky

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  • ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ @guiri-maricon.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 24, 2025

    30 Day film Challenge 🎥🎞️🍿 #filmsky #30DayChallenge Day 13: A film you always want to watch, but you haven’t yet. A Separation; I haven’t seen it yet because it’s never on streamingservice, and you have to be in a certain mood for that kind of emotional weight. boxd.it/gvo

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  • riglo.bsky.social @riglo.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 28, 2025

    I think the only Iranian film I have seen and it was fantastic, was (2011) ‘A Separation.’

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  • Dr. Liz: Life in the Aftertimes @lgkatzphd.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 31, 2024

    For those who prefer a good streaming movie to a NYE night out, here are three pre-pandemic gems: The Salesman (2016) A Separation (2011) Shoplifters (2018) All excellent & available on Prime for free or a few bucks.

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  • Roberto Cofresí Hopgood 🇵🇷 writer @rc-hopgood.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 14, 2026

    At the late night, double feature, picture show. The President's Cake (Hadi 2025) A Separation (Farhadi 2011) #film #doublefeature

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  • The Paris Theater - NYC @paristheaternyc.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 29, 2026

    ONE NIGHT ONLY! Don’t miss a rare 35mm screening of Asghar Farhadi’s A SEPARATION, a compelling drama about a couple navigating the dissolution of their marriage in contemporary Iran. Screening as part of our series Something Borrowed, Something Blue: www.paristheaternyc.com/film/a-separ...

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  • Deaf Crocodile @deafcrocodile.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 17, 2026

    ...set during production of a film by a director named “Shahram” – already blurring the lines between film and reality. Guns play a strange and mystical part in BLACK RABBIT: on the film set, we meet armorer Babak, played by the great Iranian actor Babak Karimi (FISH & CAT, A SEPARATION)...

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  • Jan Gray @jangray.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 5, 2026

    Foreign films can give us vicarious insight into life elsewhere that goes beyond stereotype and caricature. See e.g. Farhadi’s 2012 Oscar winning film A Separation depicting the clash of secular and religious cultures in Tehran.

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  • Cobie Cipher Triangulation Agency @cobieef.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 10, 2026

    OMG, why did I take so long to watch 'A Separation'? What a breathtaking film! Absolute masterpiece!

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  • Josie Yaman @tntyaman.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 23, 2025

    If you want a really good non English movie check out A Separation (2011) it’s a really well put together Iranian film about a couple getting a divorce

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  • Derryl Murphy @derrylm.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 20, 2025

    A Separation. For me, the best film of the 2010s. www.imdb.com/title/tt1832...

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  • James P Bennett @akjpb.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 13, 2025

    Watch the Iranian movie, A Separation. Every character is a study of goodness and morality, but life’s circumstances sometimes has a way of turning those good habits & intentions into a complete mess, even as decency guides every decision.

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  • ainsi atteint-on les astres 🎃 @galileanhimejoshi.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 13, 2025

    I watched A Separation (2011) this week and I'm still in awe of just how good that movie was, it really leaves an incredible impression

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  • rocky4228.bsky.social @rocky4228.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 24, 2025

    A Separation is the best movie I've seen. 👍

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  • Jackson Wickham @wickajack.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 24, 2025

    Yes. The spray can rolling down the street in Kiarostami's CLOSE-UP is an indelible image for me inside a brilliant film. I also like TASTE OF CHERRY, and felt riveted by Farhadi's A SEPARATION. Haven't seen any Panahi films yet, but I'll get to him.

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  • Gregory Pijanowski @gpijanowski.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 17, 2025

    As a side note to current events, I can highly recommend the movie A Separation which was filmed in Iran. www.imdb.com/title/tt1832...

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  • Please send job links (see pinned post) 🌎 Thanks! @100onbooks.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 22, 2025

    sunday, 27th april Noname Book Club discussing A SMALL PLACE by Jamaica Kincaid at Cheche Books from 3pm (free entry) Unseen Gems Film Club screening A Separation {جدایی نادر از سیمین} (2011, directed by Asghar Farhadi) at Unseen Cinema from 2.30pm (100/ 550 KES entry) mookh.com/event/unseen...

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  • Cult Film Social @cultfilm.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 24, 2025

    Choose one film from each of your 30 favorite (non-American) directors. Name of the film and director, along with an image. 1/30 A Separation Directed by Afghar Farhadi #filmsky

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  • Annie Darko @anniedarko.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 24, 2025

    A Separation 2011 ‧ Thriller/Drama Director Asghar Farhadi first idea of the movie was the image of a man washing his father who had Alzheimer's. He built the rest of the movie around that scene

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  • Ian Banks @handle.invalidBluesky · Jan 12, 2025

    Choose 50 non-English language films from world cinema that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 50 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just gifs & imdB link: Day 8. A Separation 2011 Iran #movie #aseparationmovie m.imdb.com/title/tt1832...

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  • Onișor Adrian @aconisor.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 14, 2024

    A Separation (2011) www.imdb.com/title/tt1832... #film

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  • Nick, meme thief @nickmilakovic.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 9, 2024

    A Separation. Filmed in Iran and nominated for best foreign film. It may have even won.

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  • Ramblin Grimace @ramblingrimace.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 18, 2024

    What's your pick for the greatest film of the 21st century so far? Try to answer quickly and with your gut. No fear. "A Separation"

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  • Iran Zamin Cinema @iranzamincinema.comBluesky · Aug 30, 2026

    Fireworks Wednesday (2006) is a key film in Asghar Farhadi’s career. Compared with his more straightforward early films, it is here that he begins to develop the distinctive style that would later reach full maturity in A Separation (2011). #IranianCinema iranzamincinema.com/2026/08/15/a...

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  • David Giard @davidgiard.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 30, 2026

    Last night, I watched "A Separation" - an intense Iranian movie about a family's trouble magnifying as they deal poorly with stressful situations.

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  • Mar Menor @marmenor.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 10, 2026

    The 1998 moviie Waking Ned, The 2011 Iranian movie A Separation The 1960 movie Conspiracy of Hearts 1970s RHODA series

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  • Have guitar, would travel, can't drive @catlit.netBluesky · May 13, 2026

    The only movie I really didn't like was Close Up, which the professor chose last minute cause he couldn't find A Separation. And as much as I respect Kiarostami, that movie seemed like it was trying to hard to squeeze a feature length story out of a mundane situation.

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  • Disc-Connected: Your trusted news source in physical media @disc-connected.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 17, 2026

    we meet armorer Babak, played by the great Iranian actor Babak Karimi (FISH & CAT, A SEPARATION). This production marks his 40th, and he’s paranoid he won’t get through the day without a terrible accident (his mentor was killed on his 40th film.) "I've discovered something important:

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  • Gregory Pijanowski @gpijanowski.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 7, 2026

    I'd also recommend the movie A Separation.

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  • Cobie Cipher Triangulation Agency @cobieef.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 10, 2026

    Next film: 'A Separation'.

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  • Today In Movies @todayinmovies.comBluesky · Dec 30, 2025

    🎬 The Top 4 Drama Movies Released on December 29! What's your fave? 1. A Separation 2. The Hurricane 3. The Hunchback of Notre Dame 4. Night Train to Munich Check out all 33 movies released on this day at https://todayinmovies.com #TodayInMovies #Movies #Film #Drama

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  • Today In Movies @todayinmovies.comBluesky · Dec 29, 2025

    🎬 Top 4 Movies Released on December 29! What's your fave? 1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1967) 2. A Separation (2011) 3. The Hurricane (1999) 4. The Red Chapel (2010) 33 movies released today! Check them out at https://todayinmovies.com #TodayInMovies #Movies #Film

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  • Santino Cortez☭🗽⩜⃝🌏⚸🐉🐍🌕👻🧘‍♂️⛥🏳‍⚧️⚢🌈☢️🪐🇨🇳🇵🇭🇯🇵🇰🇷🇹🇭🇲🇳🇲🇽🇨🇴🇫🇷🇬🇷#SexualFreedom @thaantichrist2027.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 1, 2025

    She won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival jointly with Leila Hatami, Sareh Bayat, and Sarina Farhadi as an ensemble for A Separation.

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  • Santino Cortez☭🗽⩜⃝🌏⚸🐉🐍🌕👻🧘‍♂️⛥🏳‍⚧️⚢🌈☢️🪐🇨🇳🇵🇭🇯🇵🇰🇷🇹🇭🇲🇳🇲🇽🇨🇴🇫🇷🇬🇷#SexualFreedom @thaantichrist2027.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 1, 2025

    Hosseini made her acting debut in 2009 at the age of nine, when she starred as daughter of main characters in Asghar Farhadi's Oscar-winning film A Separation (2011).

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  • And, boo! 👻 @g026r.leftblank.orgBluesky · Jun 27, 2025

    For fun, I dug up the Palme d'or, Golden Bear, and Golden Lion lists & checked how many winners made it to this one. Palme: Tree of Life, Parasite Bear: Spirited Away, A Separation Lion: Brokeback Mountain, Roma It's better aligned with the Oscar for Best International Film, which has 7 entries.

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  • Robert Falls @robertfalls.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 24, 2025

    A SEPARATION is a fantastic film and a treat indeed.

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  • 💚⭐The Seattle Flatness⭐💙 @agentj11.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 24, 2025

    Need ot watch A Separation again. What a film.

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  • Daily Direct @dailydirect.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 24, 2025

    Movie of the day: A Separation An Iranian couple's divorce leads to a complex moral and legal situation affecting multiple families. #MovieOfTheDay #DailyCinema #FilmRecommendation #DailyMoviePick #CinephileDaily

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  • Stephen Gutknecht @roundsparrow.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 29, 2024

    Child custody battles, even in Iran the film "A Separation" that is fiction, Chicago's Roger Ebert informed me of that film, I saw it in the cinema. Child custody battles. Do people enjoy hating each other? Is hate some kind of thrill + fun people have, payback and revenge? I don't have children.

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  • sayurkangkung @sayurkangkung.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 14, 2024

    I need to see more Panahi but Farhadi just stopped making good movie after A Separation...

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  • Michael Mouse @michael-mouse.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 2, 2024

    The ethical nuance in A Separation is so complex and brilliantly unveiled. Mad no one told me about this movie!

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