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 ...

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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The Seed of the Sacred Fig’s preamble begins with Mohammad Rasoulof describing the Ficus Religiosa (Sacred Fig) as a tree with an unusual life cycle. He explains, “Its seeds, contained in bird ...

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 ...

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 ...

“The Seed of the Sacred Fig” is a representation of how the state uses both ideological and physically repressive means to maintain its political and, in this case, religious legitimacy. In the film, ...