Cannes is back: The 78th French film festival returns May 13-24 with a wave of world premieres that will set the tone for the ...

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

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 ...

Judge Iman, paranoid amid Tehran's unrest, loses his gun. Suspecting family, he imposes harsh rules, straining re ...

The Ficus Religiosa, a tree native to the Indian subcontinent, has an unusual and predatory lifestyle. Its seeds, contained ...

What Iranian women must deal with in ‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’ Iranian Cinema is something to behold and to aspire to.

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 ...

The first thing is a theater project. After 30 years, I am back to working on a play. It’s a project in Berlin that we are going to work on with the actresses from The Seed of the Sacred Fig [Niousha ...

The Hope College Knickerbocker Theatre will continue its spring film series with the Academy Award-winning film “I’m Still ...

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 ...