Mohammad Rasoulof's Iranian drama The Seed of the Sacred Fig and Andreas Dresen's From Hilde, With Love tied with 6 Lola ...

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 ...

Nothing about Mohammad Rasoulof’s “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” happened overnight. The authoritarian Iranian government is both the subject of the three-hour film and the background of the film’s ...

A Chinese research group including scientists from module maker Tongwei has designed a perovskite solar cell with remarkable perovskite film quality through the so-called self-disintegrating seed ...

The best movie I’ve seen so far this year – and likely the best movie I will see – is the Iranian film The Seed of the Sacred Fig, which opened throughout the country on Thursday. It’s an ...

When asked from his new home in Germany, where he lives in exile, why it was so important this film be made, Rasoulof simply answers: "I think freedom is really important." The pulsating, Oscar ...