Director Brittany Shyne takes audiences on a journey to tell the complex and moving stories of a group of Black farmers in ...

Why making movies in Iran is dangerous Before he learned of his sentencing, Rasoulof, 52, had spent four weeks shooting his latest film, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, underground and illegally ...

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 ...

The best movie I’ve seen so far this year – and likely the best movie I will see – is the Iranian film The Seed of the Sacred Fig, which opened throughout the country on Thursday.

Mohammad Rasoulof's Iranian drama The Seed of the Sacred Fig and Andreas Dresen's From Hilde, With Love tied with 6 Lola ...