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": Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof's latest movie, for which he was ...

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.

The film academy also set down some rules for its new achievement in casting Oscar. After a preliminary round of voting to ...

Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof's latest movie, for which he was exiled, centers on a family in which the father is a judge who's gun goes missing amid protests following a woman's death in police ...

who escaped from Iran to Europe in May 2024 after receiving a jail sentence from the country’s authorities for making “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” to come out strongly in Roustayee’s defense.