Ben Sachs, the film critic of leading American weekly paper The Chicago Reader, named Shahram Mokri’s Fish and Cat, the best film screened in the US in 2015.
The critic voices hope that ‘an American DVD release is forthcoming; this is a film that can be revisited endlessly.’
Sachs put the Iranian film atop of his list ahead of works by Paul Thomas Anderson, Mia Hansen-Løve, Michael Mann, Aleksei German, George Miller, Jean-Luc Godard, Johnnie To, and Sebastián Silva.
Though Mokri’s suspenseful slasher-like-photographed film was a work of 2013 but the film was screened at Gene Siskel Film Center in February 2015 for the first time in the US.
The acclaimed work has bagged many international awards so far, including two top awards at the 28th Fribourg International Film Festival in Switzerland.
The movie won the Special Orizzonti Award for Innovative Content at the 70th edition of Venice International Film Festival.
The film also won the Best Film Award and the Best Critics Award of the 2014 Istanbul’s !f !nspired International Film Competition.
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