Asghar Farhadi
Born May 7, 1972 · Isfahan, Iran
Asghar Farhadi is a film director born in 1972 in Iran. He began his career making short films and TV series before co-writing the script for Low Heights in 2001. His breakthrough as a director came with About Elly, which won several awards including the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival.
1
Films reviewed
8.3
Avg. rating
A Separation
Best-reviewed
2011
Years active
Biography
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.
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Selected Filmography
- Square(2012)TV Series · 1 epas Self
- Everybody Knows(2018)Director
- The Salesman(2016)Director
- A Hero(2021)Director
- About Elly(2009)Director
- The Past(2013)Director
- Tambourine(2008)Screenplay
- Low Heights(2002)Writer
- Homeless(2004)TV Series · 27 epsIdea
- Parallel Tales(2026)Director
- Beautiful City(2004)Director
- The Night(2007)Story
- Room 999(2023)as Self
- Vittorio De Sica: Staging Life(2026)as Self
- Ritratti di cinema(2025)as Self
- Fireworks Wednesday(2006)Director
- Dancing in the Dust(2004)Director
- Nosrat Karimi, Being an Artist in Iran(2024)as himself
- Talking Heads 2021(2021)as Self
- Kusturica - Balkan's Bad Boy(2012)as Himself