The Gist: Real-life events frame the fictional story in Sacred Fig: In 2022, Tehran resident Mahsa Amini violated Iranian laws for properly wearing a hijab, was arrested and died in custody. The ...

Filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof said his decision to flee Iran on foot this month was necessary with the release of his new film “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” imminent, and he knew while making the movie ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sohelia Golestani, Mahsa Rostami, and Setareh Maleki in The Seed of the Sacred Fig. A social verité drama that mutates into a ...

The dissident director escaped imprisonment in Iran and debuted his feature in Cannes ahead of a Neon November release. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief A paranoid family faces Iranian oppression ...

Exiled Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof’s “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” is a powerful indictment of totalitarianism and the Iran regime. The film, which won both a Special Jury Prize and the ...

Separating a work of art from the circumstances of its production would be a fool’s errand when writing about “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” — director Mohammad Rasoulof simply wouldn’t allow it. How ...

Nothing about Mohammad Rasoulof’s “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” happened overnight. The authoritarian Iranian government is both the subject of the three-hour film and the background of the film’s ...

Set in Tehran during the explosive Woman, Life, Freedom protests against the custodial killing of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, in 2022, the story follows Iman (Misagh Zareh), a newly appointed judge in ...

Makuochi Echebiri is a News Writer for Collider. He has been interested in creative writing from as far back as high school, and he would consume pretty much anything that’s film or TV. However, his ...

The sacred fig tree (Ficus religiosa) is native to Southeast Asia and gets its name from its deep spiritual and religious significance. Also known as the bodhi tree, the sacred fig tree is said to be ...

The filmmaker's drama on the Women, Life, Freedom movement, banned in Iran, was submitted by Germany in the best international feature race: "It gives hope to all filmmakers working under repression." ...