Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig is an act of resistance
The director risks imprisonment with this film, which reveals the brutality of tyranny in Iran following the 2022 Women, Life, Freedom protests.
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New Times,
New Thinking.
The director risks imprisonment with this film, which reveals the brutality of tyranny in Iran following the 2022 Women, Life, Freedom protests.
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By David Sexton