Cannes-bound Iranian film 'Mother and Child' by Saeed Roustayee is sparking controversy before it screens, prompting Mohammad ...

A claustrophobic thriller filmed secretly in Iran tops the DVD releases for the week of May 6. "The Seed of the Sacred Fig": ...

Out of all the major filmmakers to emerge from Iran over the past decades, Mohammad Rasoulof has certainly grown into the most overtly political. His finely crafted dramas, including the superb ...

There are tons of movies coming to Hulu this month, including two I want to shout about. The first is Gia Coppola's Vegas ...

Rasoulof’s film, “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” — a movie shot clandestinely in Iran before its director and cast fled the country — ultimately was nominated for best international film.

Japanese animation film in which a miniature family lives in the foundation of the house of a sick child. Lars Von Trier directs this story about a wedding that goes awry as the end of the world ...

The Seed of the Sacred Fig - (in cinemas) Judge Iman, paranoid amid Tehran's unrest, loses his gun. Suspecting family, he imposes harsh rules, straining relationships as society destabilizes.

Also just last year, the French-Persian film The Seed of the Sacred Fig combined a haunting family drama with secretly filmed footage of the real-life protests that tore through Iran in 2022 and 2023.

A claustrophobic thriller filmed secretly in Iran tops the DVD releases for the week of May 6. "The Seed of the Sacred Fig": Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof's latest movie, for which he was ...