{"id":294356,"date":"2017-02-14T18:45:04","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T18:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=294356"},"modified":"2017-02-14T18:45:04","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T18:45:04","slug":"iranian-oscar-contender-to-screen-in-trafalgar-square-before-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/02\/iranian-oscar-contender-to-screen-in-trafalgar-square-before-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Oscar contender to screen in Trafalgar Square before ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"
An Iranian Oscar contender impacted by President Donald Trump’s controversial travel ban is to have an open-air premiere in London just hours before the ceremony.<\/p>\n
The Salesman, up for the best foreign language film award, will be screened in Trafalgar Square on 26 February.<\/p>\n
Its director has said he will not go to the Oscars due to President Trump’s attempts to bar people from seven Muslim-majority countries, including Iran.<\/p>\n
It is not yet known if Asghar Farhadi will attend the event in London.<\/p>\n
The director – whose earlier work A Separation won the foreign film Oscar in 2012 – said the free screening had “a great symbolic value”.<\/p>\n