Asghar Farhadi

Born in 1972, he direct­ed six short films before study­ing dra­ma at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Tehran, then direct­ing at the Tar­biat Modares Uni­ver­si­ty. In 2001, he wrote and direct­ed his fea­ture debut Danc­ing in the Dust. His fifth film, A Sep­a­ra­tion (2011), won the Gold­en Globe, Oscar, and César Award for Best For­eign Film among oth­ers. His next films, The Past (2013), The Sales­man (2016), Every­body Knows (2018) and A Hero (2021), were all select­ed in com­pe­ti­tion at the Cannes Film Fes­ti­val. The lat­ter won the Cannes’ Grand Prix this year.