A version of this story about Asghar Farhadi and “A Hero” first appeared in the International issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.
Iran has won two awards in the last decade in the Oscars Best International Feature Film category, and both came from director Asghar Farhadi: “A Separation” in 2011 and “The Salesman” in 2016. So it’s no surprise that the country submitted Farhadi’s new drama, “A Hero,” to this year’s race.
The film, which premiered in Cannes and was picked up by Amazon, deals with a man who’s been sent to prison for an unpaid bill. He finds a bag of gold coins in Farhadi’s understated drama, but a subsequent act of altruism only complicates matters.