The 82nd Venice Film Festival announced new additions to this year's competition jury, including actress Fernanda Torres and ...

Director Mohammad Rasoulof is banned at home in Iran but continues to make prize-winning work, including his latest thriller, 'The Seed of the Sacred Fig.' ...

Mohammad Rasoulof felt like a criminal while secretly filming his dramatic thriller The Seed of the Sacred Fig in Iran. Throughout the director’s career, he has been targeted by the Iranian ...

Director Mohammad Rasoulof knew his clandestine shooting of 'The Seed of the Sacred Fig' in Iran could have led to an eight-year prison sentence.

Mohammad Rasoulof made it to the Cannes premiere of his film “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” but only after a perilous escape from Iran before an eight-year prison term was handed down by ...

Iranian writer-director Mohammad Rasoulof had been imprisoned multiple times by the authoritarian Iranian government for his films and his outspokenness about the regime. After he made his new ...

In Mohammad Rasoulof ‘s Cannes Special Award-winning “ The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” the central figure, Iman (Missagh Zareh), is a lawyer whose appointment to the Revolutionary Court in ...

“ The Seed of the Sacred Fig ” director Mohammad Rasoulof has shared new details of his upcoming animated feature, telling Variety that the project will span the life of absurdist Iranian ...

Entertainment Movies Exiled Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof’s definition of home is shifting Dec. 5, 2024 at 1:44 pm Updated Dec. 5, 2024 at 2:43 pm ...

For filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, the idea for his new film “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” came not from a screenwriter or producer but from one of his jailers in the prison where he’d been sentenced for ...