Najmeh (Soheila Golestani, l-r), Sana (Setareh Maleki) and Rezvan (Mahsa Rostami) in a scene from the film "The Seeds of the Sacred Fig Tree". The film by Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof, who fled ...

On Friday, Feb. 22, “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” was screened at the Rubenstein Arts Center Film Theater. A 2024 Prix Spécial and FIPRESCI Prize winner at the Cannes Film Festival, this emotional and ...

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 ...

The film even goes so far as to incorporate real-life footage of the protests, demonstrating the violent extent the state went to quell them. But the intermittent montages of police brutality are ...

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 ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook This is from the official trailer of “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” distributed by Neon. “The Seed ...

Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof learned he had been sentenced to eight years in prison while he was completing his latest film, the tense political thriller “The Seed of the Sacred Fig.” Rasoulof, ...

Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof’s politically-charged thriller “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” which has been chosen to represent Germany in the upcoming international feature film Oscar race, is ...