---
name: "Asghar Farhadi"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/asghar-farhadi"
fi1m_id: "asghar-farhadi"
imdb_id: "nm1410815"
tmdb_id: 229931
wikidata_id: "Q334242"
roles: ["Director","Writer","Producer"]
born: "7 May 1972"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 79
average_as: "director"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-17T12:35:14.820063+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Asghar Farhadi

## Identity

Asghar Farhadi

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/asghar-farhadi
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** asghar-farhadi
- **IMDb ID:** nm1410815
- **TMDB ID:** 229931
- **Wikidata ID:** Q334242
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asghar_Farhadi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q334242, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1410815/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/229931

Director and writer. Born 7 May 1972 in Isfahan, Iran.

## Details

- **Work:** Director, Writer, Producer
- **Born:** 7 May 1972, Isfahan, Iran
- **Active:** 2011–2016
- **Also known as:** 아스가르 파르하디, 아쉬가르 파라디, Asqar Farhadi
- **Frequently works with:** [Alexandre Mallet-Guy](https://film.one/person/alexandre-mallet-guy.md), [Shahab Hosseini](https://film.one/person/shahab-hosseini.md)
- **Golden Globes:** 1 Golden Globe (1 won)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 79, as director, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 79 to 74 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Mystery 1, Thriller 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $42m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asghar_Farhadi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q334242, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1410815/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/229931

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*A Separation*](https://film.one/film/a-separation.md) (93)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Salesman*](https://film.one/film/the-salesman.md) (72)

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## Fi1m on Asghar Farhadi

> Asghar Farhadi makes family arguments gripping by giving each person enough time to sound reasonable. We rate him highly for that fairness, and for noticing what the children hear, even when his plotting becomes a little too neat.

In *A Separation* (2011), a daughter listens while the adults explain themselves. Sarina Farhadi's Termeh is quiet, but her attention makes it difficult to treat the quarrel as a puzzle to be solved. We were upset by how much listening the adults required of her, because she had done nothing to cause their dispute. Asghar Farhadi lets each speaker make a plausible case, then gives somebody else a turn. He also leaves time to see what those explanations are doing to the child.

That interest in families and groups persists across his changes of setting. His feature debut, *Dancing in the Dust* (2003), preceded the wider recognition that came with *About Elly* (2009). *The Past* (2013), his first film made outside Iran, took family fractures into a French setting. *Everybody Knows* (2018) followed in Spain; *A Hero* (2021) returned to Iran to examine heroism, social media and institutional pressure.

The collaborators on *A Separation* make the arguments easy to follow without making them feel orderly. Cinematographer Mahmoud Kalari's mobile camera catches the people around whoever is speaking, so a response can matter as much as a speech. Production designer Keyvan Moghaddam's glass partitions keep people visible even when they are physically divided, without turning the home into an elaborate symbol. Editor Hayedeh Safiyari keeps the complications legible, allowing us to worry about what has been said rather than who is where. Composer Sattar Oraki's restrained music leaves us free to withhold forgiveness.

Farhadi can arrange the trouble a little too precisely. In *A Separation*, a difficult question occasionally arrives just when the screenplay needs another complication. For a moment, we can feel the characters being made to serve the plot, though the actors soon make their stubbornness credible again. That is a small reservation about a film we would recommend to almost anyone, not a reason to dismiss his careful construction. Start there, and keep an eye on the people who are not talking.

## Biography

Asghar Farhadi is an Iranian film director, screenwriter and producer. He was born on 7 May 1972 in Homayoon Shahr (now Khomeyni Shahr) in Isfahan province. He studied dramatic arts at the University of Tehran and stage direction at Tarbiat Modares University, and began making short films as a teenager with the Youth Cinema Society of Isfahan.

Farhadi is known for films including *About Elly* (2009), *A Separation* (2011), *The Past* (2013), *The Salesman* (2016), *Everybody Knows* (2018) and *A Hero* (2021). *A Separation*, which he wrote, directed and produced, won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. He received a second Academy Award in the same category for *The Salesman*.

His wife Parisa Bakhtavar is also a filmmaker. Their daughter Sarina Farhadi appeared in *A Separation*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, britannica.com, nytimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *The Salesman* (2016), Fi1m 72, Producer, Writer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/the-salesman.md)
- *The Past* (2013), Fi1m 72, Writer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/the-past.md)
- *A Separation* (2011), Fi1m 93, Producer, Writer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/a-separation.md)

## Complete filmography (19)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Parallel Tales* (2026), Director, Screenplay, Producer
- *A Hero* (2021), Director, Writer, Producer
- *Everybody Knows* (2018), Director, Writer
- *About The Salesman* (2018), Actor
- *New Wave* (2016), Actor
- *The Salesman* (2016), Director, Writer, Producer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/the-salesman.md)
- *Il était une fois... Une séparation* (2014), Actor
- *The Past* (2013), Director, Writer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/the-past.md)
- *A Separation* (2011), Director, Producer, Writer — Fi1m 93, [page](https://film.one/film/a-separation.md)
- *Trial on the Street* (2009), Writer
- *About Elly* (2009), Director, Writer, Screenplay, Producer, Production Design, Costume Design
- *Canaan* (2008), Co-Writer
- *Tambourine* (2008), Screenplay
- *The Night* (2007), Story
- *Fireworks Wednesday* (2006), Director, Writer
- *Homeless* (2004), series, Idea
- *Beautiful City* (2004), Director, Writer
- *Dancing in the Dust* (2004), Director, Writer, Costume Design
- *Low Heights* (2002), Writer

## Gallery

- ![Asghar Farhadi at the screening of his movie About Elly during the Vienna International Film Festival 2009.](https://film.one/media/person/103090/gallery-d0c01d48f4c5.jpg) Asghar Farhadi at the screening of his movie About Elly during the Vienna International Film Festival 2009. — Manfred Werner - Tsui, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/Asghar_Farhadi%2C_Viennale_2009.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Asghar Farhadi](https://film.one/media/person/103090/gallery-b3839cdfac1d.jpg) Asghar Farhadi — Frankie Fouganthin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Asghar_Farhadi_in_2018-2_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Asghar Farhadi during the Stockholm International Film Festival on November 9, 2018.](https://film.one/media/person/103090/gallery-801b78bbf662.jpg) Asghar Farhadi during the Stockholm International Film Festival on November 9, 2018. — Frankie Fouganthin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Asghar_Farhadi_in_2018.jpg/1280px-Asghar_Farhadi_in_2018.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![festival de Cannes (2018)](https://film.one/media/person/103090/gallery-9820b4ebc3fc.jpg) festival de Cannes (2018) — Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Cannes_2018_3.jpg/1280px-Cannes_2018_3.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Asghar Farhadi](https://film.one/media/person/103090/gallery-26efa2c916a4.jpg) Asghar Farhadi — Image via TMDB
- ![Asghar Farhadi](https://film.one/media/person/103090/gallery-2fce1365a04d.jpg) Asghar Farhadi — Image via TMDB
- ![Asghar Farhadi](https://film.one/media/person/103090/gallery-edbaea64f249.jpg) Asghar Farhadi — Image via TMDB
- ![Asghar Farhadi](https://film.one/media/person/103090/gallery-62b1ed84b6b6.jpg) Asghar Farhadi — Image via TMDB
- ![Asghar Farhadi](https://film.one/media/person/103090/gallery-53f49a8b30fb.jpg) Asghar Farhadi — Image via TMDB
- ![Asghar Farhadi](https://film.one/media/person/103090/gallery-6d97eeecd67a.jpg) Asghar Farhadi — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2012: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (nominated), for *A Separation*

### Golden Globes — 1 won

- 2012: Best Non-English Language Film (won), for *A Separation*

### Cannes Film Festival — 1 won

- 2021: Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix (won), for *A Hero*

### Berlin International Film Festival — 2 won

- 2011: Golden Bear (won), for *A Separation*
- 2009: Best Director (won), for *About Elly*

### Other awards — 6 won

- Best Screenplay Award 2016: Best Screenplay Award (won), for *The Salesman*
- Chlotrudis Award for Best Director 2014: Chlotrudis Award for Best Director (won), for *The Past*
- Chlotrudis Award for Best Original Screenplay 2014: Chlotrudis Award for Best Original Screenplay (won), for *The Past*
- Prize of the Ecumenical Jury Cannes 2013: Prize of the Ecumenical Jury Cannes (won), for *The Past*
- Asian Film Award for Best Director 2012: Asian Film Award for Best Director (won), for *A Separation*
- César Award for Best Foreign Film 2012: César Award for Best Foreign Film (won), for *A Separation*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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