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The patriarchal tensions within an Iranian family unit serve as a microcosm of an archaic authoritarian government in this unnerving, genre-inflected drama from exiled director Mohammad Rasoulof.
Mohammad Rasoulof had to flee his native Iran after being sentenced to prison for making films like this courageous drama.
A hard-hitting Iranian film about the country's women-led protests that has wowed Cannes was kept so secret that even its star didn't know who was making it for several months, she told the festival on Saturday. "The Seed of the Sacred Fig" has blown away critics at the Cannes Film Festival with its powerful depiction of a family torn apart by the "Women, Life, Freedom" protests that erupted in Iran in 2022. It is considered a frontrunner for an award at the closing ceremony later on Saturday.
25/05/2024 - CANNES 2024: Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof helms a remarkable political film about the feminist revolution in his country through the carefully scripted misadventures of a small family
The Seed of the Sacred Fig, the film for which Rasoulof was given an eight-year prison sentence for criticising the Iranian regime, receives standing ovation on the Côte d’Azur