Awards season. For some Hollywood stars, such prizes are a vanity project. For some film-makers, though, they are necessary to survival.
The career of the Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof has been largely sustained by prizes, awarded at festivals such as Cannes and Berlin, where his last film, There is No Evil, took the Golden Bear in 2020. After being feted at Cannes, this new film, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, is now up for Best International Feature Film at the Oscars – the submission coming from Germany, where the film was finished and Rasoulof now lives in exile.
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