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Digital Date
February 11, 2025
Director
Mohammad Rasoulof
Cast
Misagh Zareh, Soheila Golestani, Mahsa Rostami, Setareh Maleki
MPA Rating
Rated R for language and some sexual material
Shot entirely in secret, Mohammad Rasoulof’s award-winning thriller, THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG, centers on a family thrust into the public eye when Iman is appointed as an investigating judge in Tehran. As political unrest erupts in the streets, Iman realizes that his job is even more dangerous than expected, making him increasingly paranoid and distrustful, even of his own wife Najmeh and daughters Sana and Rezvan
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In The Seed of the Sacred Fig, a dick of a dad chooses country over family in a sobering and ultimately dark peek inside Iran’s twisted moral curtain. Shot in secret and ultimately responsible for the director’s exile, The Seed of the Sacred Fig is a powerful if overly long drama-thriller mixed with real footage of bloody protests, beatings, and murders.
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