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

Support is mounting across the global film community for Iranian directing duo Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha ahead of ...

Juliette Binoche, Pedro Almodóvar and Mohammad Rasoulof have joined a campaign in support of persecuted Iranian filmmakers ...

Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof's "The Seed of the Sacred Fig" won a special prize at the Cannes film festival last year ...

NEW YORK — For many filmmakers, the Oscars are a pipe dream. But not because they think their movies aren’t good enough.

Mohammad Rasoulof, Pedro Almodóvar, Juliette Binoche and other members of the filmmaking community sign a petition supporting ...

Set amid the Woman, Life, Freedom uprisings in Iran — following the death in custody of Mahsa Amini — The Seed of the Sacred Fig shows a family unravelling just like their country.

Oscar contender, Mohammad Rasoulof explores a question that he's long pondered: "how do people who work with the system function internally?".

When asked from his new home in Germany, where he lives in exile, why it was so important this film be made, Rasoulof simply answers: "I think freedom is really important." The pulsating ...

But not because they think their films are not good enough. The exiled Iranian director, Mohammad Rasoulof, for instance, knew his native country was more likely to imprison him than submit his ...