EXCLUSIVE: Open Road Films and Briarcliff Entertainment jointly acquired U.S. and Canadian distribution rights to Separation, a horror film directed by William Brent Bell (The Devil Inside, The Boy) ...

While A Separation is the first Iranian movie ever to win the Oscar for best foreign-language film, Iran has been a cinema hotbed for decades, turning out exceptional work despite the strict codes of ...

The winner of the 2011 Sydney Film Prize came down to a tight contest between two Middle Eastern films, Ashgar Farhadi’s "A Separation" from Iran and Mohamed Diab’s "Cairo 678" from Egypt, but it was ...

Breaking from the awards season pack in a pretty significant way, the International Cinephile Society announced that Asghar Farhadi’s “A Separation” led the winners of their 9th annual awards. “A ...

What's it with ghosts in horror movies who don't come out and just say what's on their ethereal minds to the living? Instead they just either float around doing spooky stuff or drop obtuse clues on ...

The Separated, an Atlantic documentary, follows Anita and her son Jenri, who were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border this summer. The documentary’s producer, Jeremy Raff, says he wanted to capture a ...

The Iranian film “A Separation,” written and directed by Asghar Farhadi, has been nominated for two Oscars: Best Foreign Language Film and Best Original Screenplay, which for a non-English film is ...

Farhadi’s 2011 Berlin prizewinner is not precisely about law, Sharia or any other. But the legal rituals and fevered bureaucracy, the Islamic predicate of one person’s word against another’s – no ...

Though you might not have guessed it from the brief and elegant acceptance speech made by Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi at last week's Oscars, moviemaking in Iran today requires an authentic act of ...