Asghar Farhadi's 'A Hero' Heading to Berlin Market

, the new drama from two-time Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi , is set to heat up the European Film Market in Berlin, which kicks off next week.

Memento Films International, the French production and sales outfit that has collaborated with Farhadi on his last three films, will be shopping the project to buyers in Berlin, circulating an English-language version of Farhadi's original Farsi script. The project is nicely timed, coming on the heels of the historic Oscar win Sunday night for Bong Joon Ho's, which became the first non-English language movie to take the Academy Award for best picture. Like Bong, Farhadi is an acclaimed international director who has made movies outside his native country, but has found his greatest success with homegrown features.

Farhadi is producing the film together with Alexandre Mallet-Guy of Memento Films, whose distribution arm will release

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