Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof is now an Oscar-nominated refugee, in a bittersweet harvest for his film The Seed of the ...

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Soheila Golestani, the Iranian actor who stars in Mohammad Rasoulof’s Oscar-nominated drama “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” has been banned from leaving Iran to serve on the Tiger Competition ...

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The title of the film, referencing the sacred fig tree that spreads by choking another, serves as a potent metaphor for the suffocating theocratic regime in Iran. Rasoulof’s bold decision to ...