Asghar Farhadi, the two-time Oscar-winning filmmaker known as one of the leading voices of Iranian cinema, is now in the middle of a legal battle over allegedly plagiarizing the idea for his film “A ...

Director Asghar Farhadi's new drama is "A Hero," opening in January from Amazon Studios. (Al Seib/Los Angeles Times) Moral crucibles that upend the lives of everyday people, never above reproach but ...

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 ...

The Oscar winner behind films A Separation and The Salesman is being taken to court over claims he plagiarized elements of 2021's A Hero from a former student's documentary without crediting her. Nick ...

Asghar Farhadi’s A Hero was one of the most acclaimed films last year. Though the film failed to earn an Oscar nomination (two of Farhadi’s films have won Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language ...

'A Hero,' the new feature from Iranian director and two-time Oscar-winner Asghar Farhadi, is heading to the Berlin market, where French sales outfit Memento Films International will be shopping the ...

Moral crucibles that upend the lives of everyday people, never above reproach but always deserving of sympathy, are a dramatic propellant for the films of Iranian writer-director Asghar Farhadi. There ...