What Filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof Endured To Make “The Seed Of The Sacred Fig”

Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed Of The Sacred Fig is astonishing in its raw truthfulness, but also that every day of clandestine filmmaking process presented another opportunity for the filmmaker’s arrest. Set in Tehran, Seed tells a chilling story of Iman (Missagh Zareh), an investigating judge who is promised money, safety, and security in his new role. The catch is that his job is to tailor his investigations to pre-ordained outcomes regardless of the judiciary process.

Iman soon realizes the perks of his promotion lead to anxiety and paranoia which eventually push him to turn on his wife Najmeh (Soheila Golestani) and daughters Sana (Setareh Malek) and Reagan (Mahsa Rostami).

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