The Seed of the Sacred Fig

With Mohammad Rasoulof and co-star Mahsa Rostami in person 

Dir. Mohammad Rasoulof. 2024, 168 mins. Iran/Germany/France. In Persian with English subtitles. DCP. With Soheila Golestani, Missagh Zareh, Mahsa Rostami, Setareh Maleki. A tense and gripping thriller as well as a politically radical, antipatriarchal drama, Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig was shot in secret, away from the eye of the censorious Iranian government. When Iman, husband and father of two, is appointed as an investigating judge in Tehran, the political reality of his two daughters’ growing progressivism, emboldened by growing street protests, threatens to explode into his professional life. An absorbing, elegantly constructed work that ratchets up the suspense notch by agonizing notch, Rasoulof’s film charts a man’s increasing paranoia at the moment that the women in his life find their voices. Rasoulof was sentenced by his country’s government to eight years in prison before finishing this film, so he escaped Iran and smuggled the film into Cannes, where it won five awards. 

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