A Separation sits in the top 5% of Other Asia films on this catalog — ranked #28 of 547 by TMDB audience score.
Synopsis
جدایی نادر از سیمین
“Ugly truth, sweet lies.”
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.
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #28 of 547 Other Asia films indexed here (95th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is +1.3 points above the Other Asia average of 6.6/10.
Among Other Asia Drama productions specifically: #18 of 356 (top 5%).
Audience Engagement
1,568 audience reviews — more than 100% of Other Asia films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 97th percentile among Other Asia films.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with A Separation. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
The 2010–2012 Other Asia Window
Among 63 Other Asia films we catalog from this window, A Separation places #5 — near the top of its class.
The 2010s Other Asia Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2010s in Other Asia, 226 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when A Separation premiered alongside 25 others.
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 2h 3m runtime, production spent $41K per minute on screen and earned $199K per minute back.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 25 other Other Asia films in 2011.
The 268th Other Asia title from Other Asia we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1949).
Our Other Asia catalog contains 547 titles in total (522 films).
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on A Separation, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- class · 5
- maid · 4
- emigration · 2
- caregiver · 2
- marital separation · 1
- family argument · 1
- money · 14
- teheran (tehran) · 13
- divorce · 13
- alzheimer's disease · 7
- iran · 33
- iran · 33
Production Details
| Primary Country | Other Asia |
|---|---|
| All Production Countries | Australia, France, Iran |
| Original Language | Persian |
| Production Companies | Asghar Farhadi Productions, Dreamlab Films, MPA APSA Academy Film Fund, Memento Films Production |
| Runtime | 2h 3m |
| Release Date | February 15, 2011 |
| IMDb | tt1832382 |