Asghar Farhadi (1972)

A graduate in Drama at Faculty of Arts – Tehran University, and, got an M.A. from Tarbiat Moallem University. Filmmaking, he started in 1986, at IYCS – Isfahan bureau. In 2001, with the screenplay of Hatami Kia’s “Low Heights”, he made a name for himself. Director of four feature films and some tv series, and also some short films. Winner of many awards.

His tendency towards low class and middle class, and analyzing the relations and the mentality of people belonging to one of these, made him a filammaker trying to offer his viewpoints through social realism, and especially, by psychoanalyzing low and middle class town people. Chaharshanbe Soori is the most subtle and smart films of his. The very accurate developed subject, the suitable selection of crew and last, were the main reason for its success. The audience felt being watching an exact and believable picture of the milieu they are living in the story is about a working girl from the lower part of the town, who enters the apartment, belonging to a high middle – class family. At the beginning she is enjoying all the glitters and glamours of this kind of life, but slowly, she gets to know these people are living in a hidden corruption, their marriages are on the rock, and everything is baseless.