Juliette Binoche, Pedro Almodóvar and Mohammad Rasoulof have joined a campaign in support of persecuted Iranian filmmakers ...

Support is mounting across the global film community for Iranian directing duo Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha ahead of ...

Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof's "The Seed of the Sacred Fig" won a special prize at the Cannes film festival last year ...

Mohammad Rasoulof, Pedro Almodóvar, Juliette Binoche and other members of the filmmaking community sign a petition supporting ...

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 ...

Set amid the Woman, Life, Freedom uprisings in Iran — following the death in custody of Mahsa Amini — The Seed of the Sacred Fig shows a family unravelling just like their country.

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 ...

But not because they think their films are not good enough. The exiled Iranian director, Mohammad Rasoulof, for instance, knew his native country was more likely to imprison him than submit his ...

It’s also a remarkable act of bravery from director Mohammad Rasoulof, his cast and crew. Since Rasoulof completed his blistering film, which is up for a Bafta and an Academy Award, all but one of ...

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, ...