EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Oscar winner Asghar Farhadi is heading into production on new film A Hero, we can reveal. The Farsi-language project will enter pre-production in two months and is due to shoot in ...

UPDATE with producer statement: A Hero producer Alexandre Mallet-Guy has released a statement following reports of a plagiarism judgement against Oscar-winning filmmaker Asghar Farhadi in Iran over ...

Filmmaker Asghar Farhadi at the 75th Annual Cannes Film Festival, where he served on the jury / Getty Images Writer-director Asghar Farhadi implored people around the world to stand in solidarity with ...

A former student sues the Iranian auteur for pilfering her premise for his recent short-listed drama — an allegation he rejects — and risks 74 lashes if she loses the case. By Scott Roxborough Europe ...

Iranian director Asghar Farhadi has been cleared of allegations that he plagiarized his Oscar-winning 2021 feature “A Hero” from a former student’s work after a Tehran-based panel of experts in ...

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," his ...

Film shot in Iran is in postproduction and is expected for a 2022 release Amazon Studios has acquired the U.S. rights to “A Hero,” the next film from Oscar winner Asghar Farhadi, an individual with ...

Asghar Farhadi announced last month that he wouldn't attend. — -- "The Salesman" took home the Oscar Sunday night for best foreign language film as its director stayed home in protest of ...

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 around his ...

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 ...