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But Mohammad Rasoulof’s “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” flips this trope on its head. What starts out as a grounded domestic ...

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Produced and smuggled out of Iran, 'The Seed of the Sacred Fig' has profound intensity and a family oriented political story ...

The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024) is a triumph among Iranian films. Its mere existence is a miracle and testament to the sheer willpower of writer and director Mohammad Rasoulof’s determination ...

The Seed of the Sacred Fig” is a psychological thriller that challenges viewers to see the effects of power in flawed ...

Acclaimed director Mohammad Rasoulof filmed The Seed of The Sacred Fig in defiance of Iran’s strict filmmaking laws. It’s earned him an Oscar nomination — and a prison sentence.

The conditions in which The Seed of the Sacred Fig was made were impossibly prohibitive. Rasoulof had to direct the film secretively from afar and, when the shoot was completed, his looming eight-year ...

As “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” opens, Iman, a lawyer who has faithfully served in Iran’s legal system for 20 years, has just been promoted to investigative judge in the Revolutionary Court ...

Set during the women’s uprising in Iran, The Seed of the Sacred Fig is courageous indictment of that country’s system.

Stars Mahsa Rostami and Setareh Maleki tell IndieWire about how Mohammad Rasoulof convinced them to star in the Iranian thriller — and has helped protect them ever since.