"Sacred Fig" received the Special Award at Cannes this year, where it premiered following Rasoulof fleeing his home country of Iran in order to avoid a prison and flogging sentence. “Of course ...

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In Mohammad Rasoulof’s Cannes Special Award-winning “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” the central figure, Iman (Missagh Zareh), is a lawyer whose appointment to the Revolutionary Court in Tehran creates a ...

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 ... at the images of that ...

Emergency services were called to a unit complex on Lillian Street in Redbank Plains at about 8:40pm, where the victim was declared deceased at the scene. Russell Mark Davis, 48, was charged with ...

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.

To avoid a recent eight-year jail sentence that included a flogging, Rasoulof fled Iran in May after the regime demanded he pull his latest hard-hitting drama, “The Seed of the Sacred Fig ...

“The Seed of the Sacred Fig” released in limited theaters on ... they want absolute control over images they don’t like that confront the reality of their own being and their own system.

“The Seed of the Sacred Fig” is an anguished cry from the heart of Mohammad Rasoulof, the Iranian filmmaker who just fled his home country for Europe after an eight-year prison sentence from the ...

“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 ...

The Seed of the Sacred Fig precedes this crisis by detailing the dynamics of Iman’s home, which he only visits late at night after long days at the office. Najmeh is a dutiful spouse whose ...