Ban or no ban, Iranian director Asghar Farhadi will not be attending the 2017 Academy Awards Ban or no ban, Iranian director Asghar Farhadi will not be attending the 2017 Academy Awards.

Iranian writer-director Asghar Farhadi revealed that a long gestation period in his head and a subsequent copious amount of real-world rehearsal time allowed him to shape A Hero into the criticall ...

As any fan of Farhadi’s wry, socially critical dramas can guess, things don’t go according to plan. Farhadi denies all the allegations and has filed a countersuit against the former student ...

Two-time Oscar-winning director Asghar Farhadi didn't set out to make a movie where social media plays a prominent part. The Iranian filmmaker doesn't even use social media much. But in "A Hero ...

Director Asghar Farhadi, the Iranian filmmaker behind the Oscar-winning films “A Separation” and “The Salesman,” remains embroiled in legal action over a claim of plagiarism revolving arou ...

By Alex Ritman U.K. Correspondent According to Amir Jadidi, the star of Asghar Farhadi’s drama A Hero, there’s an expression in Farsi that roughly translates as, “The wealthier, the needier.” ...

The Iranian writer-director Asghar Farhadi came to most American filmgoers' attention in 2011 with his taut, Academy Award-winning divorce drama "A Separation," which he followed up last year with ...

Anousheh Ansari, the first female space tourist, and Firouz Naderi, a former director of Solar Systems Exploration at NASA, will be representing Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi at the Oscars on ...

Amazon Studios has acquired U.S. rights to two-time Oscar-winning filmmaker Asghar Farhadi’s “A Hero,” which shot in Shiraz, Iran, and is now in post production. Amazon Studios is planning ...