Produced and smuggled out of Iran, 'The Seed of the Sacred Fig' has profound intensity and a family oriented political story ...

The Sacred Fig (Ficus religiosa), or the Peepal tree, is highly revered across cultures for its religious and historical ...

But Mohammad Rasoulof’s “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” flips this trope on its head. What starts out as a grounded domestic ...

The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” an Oscar-nominated movie filmed in secret in Iran, highlights the Iranian film world’s ...

The Seed of the Sacred Fig” is a psychological thriller that challenges viewers to see the effects of power in flawed ...

The Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof was in a Tehran jail when he hit on the idea for his Oscar-nominated film The Seed of the Sacred Fig. He was in solitary confinement for signing a petition ...

Soheila Golestani, 44, was the leading lady in The Seed of the Sacred Fig, which aims to shine a spotlight on the moral corruption and tension in Iranian society. The picture is up for the ...

Set during the women’s uprising in Iran, The Seed of the Sacred Fig is courageous indictment of that country’s system.

Best International Feature Film category nominees are Brazil’s I'm Still Here, France’s Emilia Pérez, Germany’s The Seed of ...

The Sacred Fig (Ficus religiosa), or the Peepal tree, is highly revered across cultures for its religious and historical significance. But aside from its religious and historical value ...