Acclaimed director Mohammad Rasoulof filmed The Seed of The Sacred Fig in defiance of Iran’s strict filmmaking laws. It’s earned him an Oscar nomination — and a prison sentence. Faced with a ...

The conditions in which The Seed of the Sacred Fig was made were impossibly prohibitive. Rasoulof had to direct the film secretively from afar and, when the shoot was completed, his looming eight ...

If The Seed of the Sacred Fig is on your watchlist, this is a roadmap to a timely rendezvous with one of the most talked about nominees. The countdown is on but this Oscars crash course would not take ...

To her legions of political foes, Weidel serves as a "fig leaf" for a party that has railed against asylum seekers, Islam and multiculturalism and some of whose top figures have voiced revisionist ...

The patriarch of 1883, James (Tim McGraw) was a farmer from Tennessee. Haunted by his experiences in the Civil War, where he served in the Confederate army during the Battle of Antietam and was ...

But there’s another fruit worthy of the spotlight: the fig. Its gentle sweetness and silky texture turn an ordinary pitcher of sangria into something special for warm summer nights and casual ...

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Stars Mahsa Rostami and Setareh Maleki tell IndieWire about how Mohammad Rasoulof convinced them to star in the Iranian thriller — and has helped protect them ever since.