One of the most anticipated films premiering at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival is The Seed of the Sacred Fig, the latest from acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof. His films have show ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Separating a work of art from the circumstances of its production would be a fool’s errand when writing about “The Seed of the ...

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, ...

Flanked by his film's stars, stars, director Mohammad Rasoulof displays photos of missing actors at 'The Seed of the Sacred Fig' premiere in Cannnes. Getty Images This afternoon, Iranian filmmaker ...

"You'd better not let him catch you." Film Movement has revealed an official US trailer for a Tunisian indie drama titled Under the Fig Trees, made by documentary filmmaker Erige Sehiri as her first ...

Woman, life, freedom. Down with theocracy! The slogans shouted in the bloody streets of Tehran over the past year echo through The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Mohammad Rasoulof’s long, heartfelt story of ...

About a half an hour before the start of my conversation with exiled Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, he gets tragic news from his home country. Kianush Sanjari, a journalist and activist who he’d ...