I have to confess that I had a hard time back then getting through Azar Nafisi’s 2003 best-seller of the same name, on which this film is ...

Ila Firouzabadi, a co-writer on the film alongside Rankin and Nemati, said that the scene of the family was designed to evoke the warmth of certain homes in Tehran, where Firouzabadi was born.

The picture is up for the international gong - but has been nominated as a German, rather than Iranian, film. Because of her role in the movie, Soheila has been banned from leaving her Tehran home ...

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.

(FromL) Iranian actress Niousha Akhashi, Iranian actress Setareh Maleki and Iranian actress Mahsa Rostami pose during a photocall for the film "The Seed of the Sacred Fig" at the 77th edition of ...