Even before Saeed Roustayee’s “Woman and Child” premieres at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival, the Iranian director’s new ...

who escaped from Iran to Europe in May 2024 after receiving a jail sentence from the country’s authorities for making “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” to come out strongly in Roustayee’s defense.

Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof's latest movie, for which he was exiled, centers on a family in which the father is a ...

A claustrophobic thriller filmed secretly in Iran tops the DVD releases for the week of May 6. "The Seed of the Sacred Fig": Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof's latest movie, for which he was ...

There are tons of movies coming to Hulu this month, including two I want to shout about. The first is Gia Coppola's Vegas ...

Last year, for instance, the Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof fled Iran before he was to be flogged and imprisoned for ...

Also just last year, the French-Persian film The Seed of the Sacred Fig combined a haunting family drama with secretly filmed footage of the real-life protests that tore through Iran in 2022 and 2023.