Oscar candidate “The Seeds of the Holy Fig Tree” in the cinema: This film is self-defense culture

The director has fled and everyone who plays here is resisting the terror of the Iranian regime: Mohammad Rasoulof’s secretly shot film “The Seeds of the Sacred Fig Tree”.

There are films that are small miracles simply because they shouldn’t even exist. Mohammad Rasoulof secretly filmed “The Seeds of the Sacred Fig Tree”; he had long been banned from working in Iran. You never notice in the film the difficult circumstances under which it was forced. By the way, it is also a contemporary document; images from Iranian reality are virtuously woven into the fictional family drama, television news, cell phone videos, social media posts.