Boise State Public Radio4d
Mohammad Rasoulof left Iran after making his most daring film
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' Review: Mohammad Rasoulof Emerges from Iran with a Shattering Domestic Thriller About Patriarchal Violence
A family implodes against a backdrop of paranoia and protest in this deeply upsetting masterwork from the Iranian filmmaker, ...
Los Angeles Times3d
To attend his Cannes premiere, he fled an Iranian prison sentence. The film is worth it
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 ...
The New York Times4d
‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’ Review: When the World Is a Prison
Mohammad Rasoulof’s powerful drama about the authoritarian Iranian government breaks a fourth wall, with consequences. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...
WAMC4d
Mohammad Rasoulof left Iran after making his most daring film
Just days after he finished shooting his latest film, The Seed of The Sacred Fig, Mohammad Rasoulof got a call that would change the course of his life. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Court had just ...
Salon3d
"The Seed of the Sacred Fig" explores the ideology of Iranian family members who "submit to power"
Exiled Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof’s “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” is a powerful indictment of totalitarianism and the Iran regime. The film, which won both a Special Jury Prize and ...