The road to make and release "The Seed of the Sacred Fig" was not always a smooth one for writer/director Mohammad Rasoulof, ...

Mohammad Rasoulof on the logistical challenges of making The Seed of the Sacred Fig, the Academy Award–shortlisted film that ...

When Andrew Bird steps into the editing booth, he's used to collaborating with and bouncing ideas off of a director. But in ...

21:33Mohammad Rasoulof: Risking everything for his new film The Seed of the Sacred Fig The ficus religiosa is a species of fig tree that spreads its seeds onto other trees, eventually strangling ...

On a practical level, the more attention The Seed of the Sacred Fig gets, the safer Rasoulof and his crew — Soheila Golestani and Setareh Maleki, the actresses who play sisters in the film have ...

The film, on the weekend docket at the Detroit Film Theatre, is on the shortlist for Best International Feature Film at the ...

The film plays out like that rare piece of art capable of capturing the individual agency inherent in both resistance and ...

The sacred fig in Rasoulof’s exceptionally well-acted film — a multiple prize winner at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival the embattled writer-director had to flee Iran to screen, risking imprisonment and ...

A family is torn apart by a missing firearm in "The Seed of the Sacred Fig," a searing thriller that rises to a white hot ...

Each of his films since — including The Seed of the Sacred Fig, one of the favorites for this year’s Academy Award in the best international feature category — has been made in secret ...