About a half an hour before the start of my conversation with exiled Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, he gets tragic news ...
Mohammad Rasoulof's provocative film has been banned in Iran, but Germany has submitted it for Oscar consideration ...
Dissident filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof talks about how he escaped Iran on foot after making his new political thriller, The ...
The Seed of the Sacred Fig” released in limited theaters on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024, so now is the perfect time to check out ...
Director Mohammad Rasoulof knew his clandestine shooting of 'The Seed of the Sacred Fig' in Iran could have led to an ...
The insidious monstrousness of Iran’s regime and culture is brutally censured by The Seed of the Sacred Fig, in theaters Nov.
The filmmaker, whom the Iranian government had imprisoned several times, fled his homeland to escape an 8-year sentence for ...
Rasoulof is among Iran’s most famous and revered filmmakers, his work notable for featuring characters who are government ...
Their mother warns, “You must be irreproachable.” With “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” Rasoulof has composed an epic of ...
Mohammad Rasoulof’s powerful drama about the authoritarian Iranian government breaks a fourth wall, with consequences.
M idway through The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Islamic Revolutionary Court investigating judge Iman (Missagh Zareh), whose name means “faith,” is losing his grip. The gun he was ...
It's almost exactly halfway through Mohammad Rasoulof's powerful, angry, masterfully crafted "The Seed of the Sacred Fig" ...