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

Rasoulof named this film after the sacred fig, an invasive species that slowly takes over the tree it grows on. Similarly, “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” shows how the seeds of injustice planted by a ...

September 5, Tim Fehlbaum’s real-life thriller based on the terrorist attacks on the 1972 Munich Olympics, picked up 10 ...

He shot The Seed of the Sacred Fig in secret in various locations around ... of fig that spreads by wrapping itself around another tree and eventually strangling it. The storyline follows a ...

On Friday, Feb. 22, “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” was screened at the Rubenstein Arts Center Film Theater. A 2024 Prix Spécial and FIPRESCI Prize winner at the Cannes Film Festival, this ...

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

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 ...

Soheila Golestani (left), Mahsa Rostami and Setareh Maleki as mother and daughters in The Seed of the Sacred Fig.Credit: MIFF Fortunately, Iran’s filmmakers are here to remind us. For decades ...

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 ...