Asghar Farhadi

At the age of thirteen he shot his first short film in a youth film club before studying Drama at the University of Tehran and graduating in Stage Direction from the Tarbiat Modarres University. In 2003 he premiered his first feature, Dancing in the Dust, which won awards in Fajr and Moscow. A year later, The Beautiful City was ranked as the best film at the Warsaw Film Festival. After that, Fireworks Wednesday (2006) was awarded in Chicago and About Elly won the… (more)