Review: A tense household becomes a metaphor for Iran’s divisions in ‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’
The latest drama by Mohammad Rasoulof won the embattled filmmaker a prize at Cannes, though not before he had to flee his ...
To attend his Cannes premiere, he fled an Iranian prison sentence. The film is worth it
Director Mohammad Rasoulof is banned at home in Iran but continues to make prize-winning work, including his latest thriller, ...
Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof had a secret plan for ‘Seed of the Sacred Fig’
The filmmaker, whom the Iranian government had imprisoned several times, fled his homeland to escape an 8-year sentence for ...
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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 ...
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The Seed of the Sacred Fig
It's almost exactly halfway through Mohammad Rasoulof's powerful, angry, masterfully crafted "The Seed of the Sacred Fig" ...
How an Iranian Filmmaker Made a Movie Criticizing the Regime Right in the Middle of Tehran
A family drama and a political parable, Rasoulof’s new film concerns a recently promoted “investigative judge” named Iman (Missagh Zareh) — really a rubber-stamper there to bureaucracy-wash the regime ...