The Seed of The Sacred Fig is not an easy watch, but as it progresses it feels increasingly important. • The Seed Of The ...

Mohammad Rasoulof’s “Seed of the Sacred Fig” goes beyond the headlines and lets audiences experience, up close, a revolutionary movement in Iran. It’s an acclaimed account of what protest ...

Nothing about Mohammad Rasoulof’s “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” happened overnight. The authoritarian Iranian government is both the subject of the three-hour film and the background of the film’s ...

In “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” Iman (Missagh Zareh), who works in the justice system, gets promoted to an investigator for the State. This puts his family at risk, but his supportive wife ...

The Seed of the Sacred Fig Rated PG-13, mostly for the documentary footage, which depicts real-life violence in Tehran. In Persian, with subtitles. Running time: 2 hours 48 minutes.

But in the case of “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” Germany’s official Oscar submission for Best International Film, he had to learn to trust his own instincts.

If the powerhouse Iranian drama “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” dramatizes the cruel ironies of existence in a theocratic state, the film’s writer-director, Mohammad Rasoulof, is living them.

“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, ...

'Seed of the Sacred Fig' director Mohammad Rasoulof is standing behind his cast and crew who have been persecuted by the Iranian regime.

Indeed, “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” seems, at first glance, to check off all of the same boxes as Glazer’s film: It follows Iman (Missagh Zareh), a government official who gets promoted to ...