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 ...

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What Iranian women must deal with in ‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’ Iranian Cinema is something to behold and to aspire to.

with Mohammad Rasoulof’s Iranian drama The Seed of the Sacred Fig right behind with six. Rasoulof’s depiction of an Iranian family torn apart by conflicting loyalties to an increasingly ...

I take a recipe book, and cook from it, for family and friends. I then write a review, and you decide whether the book – in ...

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

Oscar contenders September 5 and The Seed of the Sacred Fig, and Andreas Dresen’s historic drama From Hilde, With Love are the frontrunners for this year’s German Film Awards, also called the Lolas, ...

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. Faced with a ...

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 ...

“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 ...