In “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” an Iranian official learns he is being promoted to judicial investigator, which is a steppingstone to a judgeship. There is a direct and appealing potential benefit: ...

The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024) Film Review, a movie written and directed by Mohammad Rasoulof and starring Missagh Zareh, Soheila Golestani, Mahsa Rostami, Setareh Maleki, Niousha Akhshi, Reza ...

You won’t be able to rip your eyes away from The Seed of the Sacred Fig (now streaming on Hulu), an Iranian film that stands among the best of 2024. The story of its making is as fraught as the one it ...

Reality seeps into “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” in multiple ways, including ones that writer-director Mohammad Rasoulof couldn’t have imagined back when he shot this absorbing drama in secret. One of ...

“The Seed of the Sacred Fig” released in limited theaters on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024, so now is the perfect time to check out some of its glowing critics’ reviews. During the Cannes Film Festival, ...

If the powerhouse Iranian drama “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” dramatizes the cruel ironies of existence in a theocratic state, the film’s writer-director, Mohammad Rasoulof, is living them. Sentenced ...

A family is torn apart by a missing firearm in "The Seed of the Sacred Fig," a searing thriller that rises to a white hot boil. The missing firearm is a stand-in for much larger conflicts — religious, ...