Asghar Farhadi

Directing·May 7, 1972·Isfahan, Iran

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Asghar Farhadi (اصغر فرهادی) was born in 1972 in Iran. He became interested in cinema in his teenage years and started his filmmaking education by joining the Youth Cinema Society of Esfahan in 1986 where he made 8mm and 16mm short films. Asghar Farhadi received his Bachelors in Theater from University of Tehran's School of Dramatic Arts in 1998 and his Masters in Stage Direction from Tarbiat Modarres University a few years later. During these formative years, Farhadi made six shorts and two TV series for Iran's National Broadcasting Corporation (IRIB) of which "A Tale of a City" is most noteworthy. In 2001, Asghar Farhadi debute d in professional cinema by co-writing the script for Low Heights (2002) (Ertefae Past), a post-911 political farce chronicle of Southwest Iran, with famed war film director, Ebrahim Hatamikia. The film was met with both critical and public success. The following year, Asghar Farhadi made his directorial debut, Dancing in the Dust (2003) (Raghs dar Ghobar), about a man forced to divorce his wife and go hunting snakes in the desert in order to repay his debts to his in-laws. The film earned recognition at Fajr and Moscow International Film Festivals and a year later, Beautiful City (2004) (Shahr-e-Ziba), a grave work about a young man condemned to death at the age of sixteen, received awards from Fajr and Warsaw International Film Festivals. His third film, Fireworks Wednesday (2006) (Chaharshambe Soori), won the Gold Hugo at the 2006 Chicago International Film Festival. His fourth film, About Elly (2009) (Darbareye Elly) was called "a masterpiece" by film critic David Bordwell and won the Silver Bear for Best Director at 59th Berlin International Film Festival as well as Best Picture at Tribeca Film Festival. It was also Iran's official submission for the Foreign Language Film competition of Academy Awards in 2009. His most famous films, A Separation (2011) (Jodaeiye Nader az Simin) and The Salesman (2016), received both an oscar, many other major international awards and good critics all around the world.

Film	Credit
Vittorio De Sica: Staging Life2026 · Self	Self
Parallel Tales2026 · Director, Screenplay, Producer	Director, Screenplay, Producer
Ritratti di cinema2025 · Self	Self
Nosrat Karimi, Being an Artist in Iran2024 · himself	himself
Room 9992023 · Self	Self
A Hero2021 · Director, Producer, Writer	Director, Producer, Writer
TTalking Heads 20212021 · Self	Self
Scenes from A Separation2018 · Self - Narrator (voice)	Self - Narrator (voice)
Everybody Knows2018 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
About The Salesman2018 · Actor	Actor
New Wave2016 · Actor	Actor
The Salesman2016 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer
About Cinema2015 · Self	Self
Il était une fois... Une séparation2014 · Actor	Actor
The Past2013 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Kusturica - Balkan's Bad Boy2012 · Himself	Himself
From Iran, a Separation2011 · Self - Director	Self - Director
A Separation2011 · Producer, Director, Writer	Producer, Director, Writer
Trial on the Street2009 · Writer	Writer
About Elly2009 · Director, Writer, Producer, Screenplay	Director, Writer, Producer, Screenplay
Tambourine2008 · Screenplay	Screenplay
Fireworks Wednesday2006 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Beautiful City2004 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Dancing in the Dust2004 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Low Heights2002 · Writer	Writer
Cyclothymia of a LandHimself	Himself