Golshifteh Farahani shall be feted at Locarno with the Excellence Award Davide Campari.
Farahani shall be handed the award on August 6. She may also current her newest movie, Julia Ducournau’s Alpha, on the competition.
Born in Tehran in 1983, Farahani’s breakthrough position was in Dariush Mehrjui’s The Pear Tree (1998), which gained her the Finest Actress award on the Fajr Worldwide Movie Pageant.
Since then, she has appeared in movies like Abbas Kiarostami’s Shirin (2008), Asghar Farhadi’s About Elly (2009), Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson (2016), Ridley Scott’s spy thriller Physique of Lies (2008), and Extraction (2020).
Earlier honorees embody Susan Sarandon, John Malkovich, Willem Dafoe, Michel Piccoli, Anjelica Huston, Carmen Maura, Isabelle Huppert, Gael García Bernal, Charlotte Rampling, Giancarlo Giannini, and Edward Norton. In 2024, Mélanie Laurent and Guillaume Canet have been handed the gong.
“Golshifteh Farahani is a key determine in up to date cinema,” Giona A. Nazzaro, Creative Director of the Locarno Movie Pageant, stated in a press release.
“Charismatic and multifaceted, she has been capable of immerse herself in very completely different contexts and roles, guided by her extraordinary expertise and generosity as an artist. Over time, she has managed to alternate between arthouse movies and blockbusters, infusing every movie with a brand new facet of her character. Honoring Golshifteh Farahani means celebrating a unprecedented artist who has left a deep mark on the eyes and hearts of each movie lover.”
Locarno runs from 6 to 16 August.
