While contemporaries like Jafar Panahi often turn the camera on themselves to craft meta-narratives that obscure their art and activism ... strangled by the sacred fig that he no longer realises ...

Written and directed by director Matthew Rankin, the comedy presents a Persian-language-inflected Canada, getting at timely ...

However, Iran's lively art and film scene has always been a ... not least by Mohammad Rasoulof's film "The Seeds of the Sacred Fig Tree," which is shortlisted as Germany's submission for Best ...

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This slow burn thriller from Iran exposes the brutality of authoritarianism and its devastating impact on families.

“The Seed of the Scared Fig” is the latest from Rasoulof ... to be smuggled out of the country to foreign festivals and art houses to be seen by the world. Their films, indirect indictments ...

Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof is now an Oscar-nominated refugee, in a bittersweet harvest for his film The Seed of the ...

“The Ficus Religiosa is a tree with an unusual life cycle ... the branches wrap around the host street and strangle it. Finally, the sacred fig stands on its own.” The words above are how ...

‘Submission to power is complex, it depends on other people submitting to power, and it has deep roots.’ Ficus religiosa, the sacred fig tree, grows on other trees before plunging its roots into the ...