Asghar Farhadi took the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival with his latest work, A Hero (Ghahreman), which has been hailed as his most subtle and heartfelt film since A Separation. We chatted with the Oscar-winner about the film in which a good deed goes bad (check out the video above).
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Asghar Farhadi is back in Cannes Competition this year with his latest movie A Hero, the story of a young man who is in prison because of a debt he is unable to pay. Today, the director told press that he was looking to "improve something in the world" with his filmmaking
"Everyone has their own definition," he said…
A good deed goes bad in Asghar Farhadi's Cannes Film Festival competition title A Hero (Ghahreman), a thought-provoking watch which is perhaps the filmmaker’s most subtle and heartfelt film since A Separation.
Amir Jadidi puts in a charming performance as Rahim, a pleasant but somewhat hapless man who's in prison in…
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 Shiraz, Iran, this summer. Paris-based Memento Films International will launch world sales next week at the EFM in…
Focus Features has released a trailer for Everybody Knows, Asghar Farhadi’s follow-up to his Oscar winner The Salesman. The Spanish-language film stars Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem, and Focus scored a rights deal in May right after it had its world premiere as the opening film at the Cannes Film Festival. It now…
Like its director, Asghar Farhadi's new film made its Toronto debut after racking up quite a few air miles, having premiered as the opening attraction at this year's Cannes Film Festival. His second film, after 2013's The Past, to be filmed in a foreign land, Everybody Knows sees the Iranian director teaming up with…
BREAKING: Focus Features won a late night auction for Everybody Knows, the Spanish language Asghar Farhadi film that opened the Cannes Film Festival last night with a glamorous Palais premiere that featured stars Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz and Ricardo Darín. Focus will distribute in the US, Canada, UK, Australia…
The first trailer has dropped for Cannes opener Everybody Knows, starring Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem and Ricardo Darin. Cannes announced earlier today that Oscar-winner Asghar Farhadi’s Spanish-language movie would kick off the festival.
The thriller, which is produced by France's Memento Films Production and…
UPDATE: Cannes has just confirmed that Farhadi’s anticipated title will open the festival on Tuesday 8 May.
Previous story, Wednesday 10:09 AM PST: Speculation is growing that Asghar Farhadi's Everybody Knows, which stars Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem, is set to open the Cannes Film Festival. However, Deadline…
Taking a quick break from shooting Oscar-winner Asghar Farhadi's Everybody Knows in Madrid, Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz visited the Venice Film Festival this week to promote Loving Pablo, a passion project for Bardem who also serves as producer. The film is told from the point of view of Virginia Vallejo, the…
On Monday, the U.S. State Department tweeted, and then deleted, a congratulatory message to director Asghar Farhadi, whose film The Salesmanwon the Oscar for Best Foreign-Language film at the 89th Academy Awards.
The message was shared by the State Department’s official Persian-language Twitter account…
