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 ...

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 ...

Director Asghar Farhadi won the Academy Award for foreign-language film Sunday night for “The Salesman,” his psychological tale about a young couple weathering the effects of a violent assault. 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"It has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism,” said the Iranian director, whose 'The Salesman' is nominated for the foreign-language Oscar. By Georg ...

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 ...

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 ...

Following President Donald Trump's Muslim ban, Iranian director Asghar Farhadi has decided not to attend the Oscars. Farhadi was planning to attend the Academy Awards with his cinematographer, but ...

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. Farhadi, ...