September 5, Tim Fehlbaum’s real-life thriller based on the terrorist attacks on the 1972 Munich Olympics, picked up 10 ...

The Sacred Fig (Ficus religiosa), or the Peepal tree, is highly revered across cultures for its religious and historical ...

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

Iranian dissident filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof (There Is No Evil) had to flee his home country to evade an eight-year prison ...

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.

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

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

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

“The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” an Oscar-nominated movie filmed in secret in Iran, highlights the Iranian film world’s groundbreaking new work, inspired by the women-led protests in 202 ...

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 ...

Berlin (AFP) – Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof's "The Seed of the Sacred Fig" won a special prize at the Cannes film festival last year and is hoping to go one better at the Oscars on Sunday. But ...