Iranian Oscar winner says he loves his country

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Iranian Oscar winner says he loves his country

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Now, Asghar Farhadi is filming a movie abroad.

10 March,2012 02:24 pm

Asghar Farhadi, the director who won Irans first-ever Oscar for his movie A Separation, declared on Saturday he would never leave his homeland despite his newfound global fame -- but his next film was being made abroad.I love my country and I will not change it for anywhere in the world, the 40-year-old filmmaker was quoted as saying by the official IRNA news agency as he arrived in Tehran.I will never emigrate from Iran, he said.Farhadi added, however: I am at the point of filming a movie outside of the country.The director picked up the golden statuette for best foreign language film at the US Academy Awards last month for his taut drama, A Separation -- the first time the Islamic republic ever won an Oscar.Farhadis triumph resonated even more strongly because he made the movie under the restrictions imposed by Iranian authorities, who briefly placed a ban on A Separation as it was being filmed.His next movie is being made in France, according to the trade publication Screen Daily. It is said to centre on a love story between a young Iranian woman and a North African man, and will begin filming within weeks.