My Favourite Cake' directors Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha have been given a suspended jail sentence in Iran for ...

The Sacred Fig (Ficus religiosa), or the Peepal tree, is highly revered across cultures for its religious and historical ...

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 ...

As “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” opens, Iman, a lawyer who has faithfully served in Iran’s legal system for 20 years, has just been promoted to investigative judge in the Revolutionary Court ...

with Mohammad Rasoulof’s Iranian drama The Seed of the Sacred Fig right behind with six. Rasoulof’s depiction of an Iranian family torn apart by conflicting loyalties to an increasingly ...

The best movie I’ve seen so far this year – and likely the best movie I will see – is the Iranian film The Seed of the Sacred Fig, which opened throughout the country on Thursday.

The Seed of the Sacred Fig - the story of an Iranian judge at odds with his daughters over their campaign for women's rights ...