Archive for December, 2025


A review of the 2024 Iranian film “The Seed Of The Sacred Fig”

December 10th, 2025 by Roger Darlington

This film, written, co-produced and directed by Mohammad Rasoulof, is remarkable, both for how it was shot and for what it tells us about the contemporary state of Iran. The work was filmed in Iran in secret and then smuggled to Germany for editing and post-production. It was premiered at the Cannes Film Festival where […]

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