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Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentTwo-time Oscar-winning director Asghar Farhadi and his French producer Alexandre Mallet-Guy are denying reports that the Iranian auteur has been sentenced and found guilty on a charge of plagiarism pertaining to his latest film, “A Hero.”Farhadi’s former student Azadeh Masihzadeh has accused the filmmaker of stealing the idea for “A Hero” from a documentary she made during a filmmaking workshop held by Farhadi in 2014 in Tehran.“A Hero” is about an earnest-looking man named Rahim who, while on furlough after being imprisoned for debt, returns a lost handbag full of gold coins — an act that appears to make him a good samaritan. However, the story ends up being more complicated.

A guilty judgement in a plagiarism case against Oscar winning director Asghar Farhadi is not the final verdict of the court, the filmmaker’s lawyer has said. The case involves Farhadi’s A Hero, which won the Grand Prize in Cannes last year and was Iran’s submission for the International Feature Film category at the Academy Awards.

The brother of a Dumbarton man who has been imprisoned in India for over four years has told of his new hope after a meeting was secured with the Foreign Secretary.

Manori Ravindran International EditorA documentary that goes behind the scenes on Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s six-year ordeal is coming to Channel 4The U.K. broadcaster has commissioned a single documentary, entitled “Nazanin,” from filmmaker and journalist Darius Bazargan.

live televised fundraiser for Comic Relief on Friday, March 18 from 7pm on BBC One. So which celebrities are taking part in the Red Nose Day special, when is it on TV and how can you watch it? Here's all the details you need.

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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is on her way to home and will touch down in the UK tonight after six years imprisoned in Iran, her lawyers and UK government sources have confirmed.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentIran’s government may support Russia’s of Ukraine, but the bulk of the country’s film community is outraged by the war — and some more openly than others.Prominent Iranian actor Hamid Farokhnezhad, best known internationally for starring in Asghar Farhadi’s “Fireworks,” has posted a video widely circulated on social media in which he denounces “the brutal attack of Russia against Ukraine.”Farokhnezhad (pictured above), in protest against the Russian invasion, expressed his wish in the video to return the best actor statuette he received from the Moscow Film Festival in 2005 for his role in anti-war drama “Big Drum Under Left Foot,” directed by Kazem Ma’asoumi.As Iranian multi-hyphenate Babak Karimi, speaking from Tehran, puts it, “Iran has experienced eight years of war with Iraq, which had similarities to the war in Ukraine.” “The memory of war is very much alive here,” he notes. “So it’s obvious that everyone is saying: ‘Here we go [again], this is going to last for years.'” Karimi, who is an actor, film editor and academic, won the Berlin Silver Bear in 2011 for playing the judge in Oscar-winning “A Separation,” and is a regular in Farhadi’s films.“There are some film personalities that are close to the government who support the war as a political stance, while from a human standpoint they are against it,” says Karimi.However, the vast majority of those in film circles “are fully against the war,” as is the case for Iran’s population at large.

The drama is heating up in the new season of “Tehran”.

It might not be on your radar yet, but Apple TV+ espionage thriller “Tehran” is building steam and is already an International Emmy Award-winning hit abroad. An espionage thriller from “Fauda” writer Moshe Zonder, “Tehran” tells the thrilling story of a Mossad agent who goes deep undercover on a dangerous mission in Tehran that places her and everyone around her in dire jeopardy.

The cast of Netflix’s Sex/Life is expanding for Season 2 with the addition of 5 new actors in recurring roles, they include Dylan Bruce (Midnight Texas, Orphan Black), Craig Bierko (UnREAL, Music Man), Darius Homayoun (Tehran, Succession), Cleo Anthony (She’s Gotta Have It, Seasons of Love), and Wallis Day (Infinite, Batwoman). Their roles are as yet unknown.

Hollywood veteran Henry Winkler is to lead Aleeza Chanowitz’s Israeli/U.S. crossover comedy Chanshi, with producers in talks with U.S. and international broadcasters.

Naman Ramachandran Veteran Hollywood actor Henry Winkler will star alongside Aleeza Chanowitz in “Chanshi,” a U.S.-Israel crossover comedy series for Israeli network HOT.Chanowitz is also the series creator and writer of “Chanshi,” which is currently in production on location in and around Jerusalem.Chanowitz plays Chanshi, a young religious girl from the Jewish community in Brooklyn who decides, just before her wedding and despite her family’s objections, to break off her engagement and immigrate to Israel. In the Holy Land Chanshi embarks on a wild and reckless journey, but the transition from a life with a clear set of rules to a life without any rules at all is not what she was expecting.

EXCLUSIVE: Bollywood star Elnaaz Norouzi has been added to the cast of Kandahar, the action movie starring Gerard Butler that has been shooting in Saudi Arabia.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentApple TV Plus has set a May 6 premiere date for the second season of Israeli-produced International Emmy Award-winning global espionage thriller “Tehran.”The new season stars Glenn Close, who appears in the first-look teaser image, and Niv Sultan, who returns as Mossad agent Tamar Rabinyan, as well as Shaun Toub and Shervin Alenabi. The series will debut with the first two episodes, followed by new weekly installments each Friday during its eight-episode season through June 17.The complete first season of “Tehran” is now streaming alongside an expanding slate of Apple Originals from all over the world.“Tehran” was the first non-English language series to be released on Apple’s streaming service in September 2021 after it bought international distribution rights shortly after the show’s original debut in Israel in June 2020.

AppleTV+ has teased a first look image of Glenn Close in the highly-anticipated upcoming second season of global espionage thriller Tehran.

Barcelona and Spain icon Carles Puyol broke out during the 2018 World Cup after he was 'denied entry' to an Iranian TV studio where he had been booked as a pundit.However, the broadcaster then hit out at BBC News for spreading the "rumour" despite Puyol being told that he could not appear on the show because of his looks.The 43-year-old, who has considered one of the best defenders in Europe during his Barcelona heyday, called time on his career back in 2014 before taking up roles in the media around the world.However, Puyol's 2018 stumbling block made worldwide news, with his scheduled appearance on the coverage of Iran vs Spain on Channel 3 scrapped.Puyol was said to be 'denied entry' to the IRTV 3 Tehran studio after travelling to the country because his hair was 'too wild'.Host Adel Ferdosipour then said: "You must be aware that Carles Puyol was scheduled to be with us tonight. However, he is in his hotel right now.

lioness and a mate escaped from a zoo in Iran after managing to open the door of their enclosure and going on to kill their keeper.The 40-year-old man was killed as a result of his injuries before the big cats were then caught, local media reported on Monday.The man, identified only by his family name, Esfandani, was putting meat through a feeding window when the two lions managed to open their cage, kill him, then prowl the zoo for hours.Irna, a news agency in Iran, said a lioness had pushed an iron lever to open the door to the enclosure. “The lioness, which has been in the zoo for several years, managed to open a door of the cage, get out and then attack the 40-year-old guard who had just brought food to the pair of felines,” a zoo employee told state broadcaster IRIB.He said “the two animals managed to escape” Sunday from their cage in the zoo in the city of Arak about 125 miles southwest of the capital, Tehran.“Immediately after the incident, security forces took control of the zoo,” Amir Hadi, the governor of the province was quoted as saying by state news agency IRNA.To stay up to date with all the latest news, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters here.He added that “efforts to capture the two felines alive have been successful.”Authorities are investigating the case.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentLast August, Afghan director Shahrbanoo Sadat managed to escape from Kabul with part of her family as Taliban fighters took over the city while U.S. forces withdrew.Now, her “Weekend With…Shahrbanoo Sadat” event at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, starting on Saturday Jan.

An Iranian doctor caught up in Europe’s migration crisis has told the Perthshire Advertiser he’d like to come and be a GP in Perthshire - but red tape means it is near impossible for him to get out of a Greek refugee camp.

Iranian capital of Tehran. The Iranian Revolution which began in January 1978 and ended 13 months later in February 1979, saw the overthrow of the Shah and the monarchy, with the Middle Eastern country becoming an Islamic Republic.The revolutionaries were angry with the American government due to its support for the Shah and tried to take over the US embassy twice before succeeding in November 1979.In recent months the US had reduced the size of the embassy's staff from a high of nearly 1,000 earlier in the 1970s, to just over 60 by the time of the take over.Not all of them were captured straight away, but those that were, including Marines and embassy staff, were blindfolded by the occupiers and then paraded in front of assembled photographers.