Mohammad Rasoulof talks Making 'The Seed of the Sacred Fig' in secret, describing himself as a trafficker 'smuggling human ...

Mohammad Rasoulof's provocative film has been banned in Iran, but Germany has submitted it for Oscar consideration ...

But then he was sentenced to eight more years and a flogging and confiscation of property just as he was finishing his latest film, “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” which the Iranian officials ...

But Rasoulof, whose new film, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, opens here this week, has had his fair share of heroic skirmishes — ...

“The Seed of the Sacred Fig” is a timely, harrowing film about Iranian misogyny and tyrannical theocracy. And its release forced its director to make an impossible decision. Entertainment ...

Mohammad Rasoulof’s powerful drama about the authoritarian Iranian government breaks a fourth wall, with consequences.

“The Seed of the Sacred Fig” released in limited theaters on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024, so now is the perfect time to check out some of its glowing critics’ reviews. During the Cannes Film ...

Reality seeps into “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” in multiple ways, including ones that writer-director Mohammad Rasoulof couldn’t have imagined back when he shot this absorbing drama in secret.

The 2022 death of a young Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, after apparently wearing her hijab incorrectly and the resulting protests that rocked the country provide the new Iranian film “The Seed of the ...

After “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” (Neon, November 27) won a special jury prize at Cannes and wowed audiences at Telluride, Toronto, and New York, filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof revealed more of ...