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 ...

Making of ‘A Hero’: Writer-Director Asghar Farhadi’s Latest Drama Has Been in His Mind for Decades The auteur had been pondering the themes behind Iran’s Oscar submission for best international ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Director Asghar Farhadi photographed at the London Hotel in Los Angeles on Nov. 16, 2021. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) Director ...

Asghar Farhadi, the Iranian director of two Academy Award-winning foreign language films, has been found guilty of plagiarizing the story for 2021 Cannes Grand Jury prize-winning “A Hero” from a ...

The new Iranian movie A Hero, like all of Asghar Farhadi’s distinctively hyperrealist films, is an oratorio of social catastrophe. No other living filmmaker we know of comes close to the density of ...

Questions of ethics and motive, the gap between public and private morality, run through A Hero, the latest drama from acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi. The feature, which won the Jury Grand ...

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 ...