Tag: The Seed of the Sacred Fig
2025 Oscars: ‘Universal Language’, ‘From Ground Zero’ & ‘Touch’ Join Heavy Favorites on Shortlist
As is the case every year out, films that had a legit chance of joining the shortlist pack of fifteen in Austria's The Devil's...
2024 Golden Globe Awards: Emilia Pérez, The Brutalist & Anora Take Pole Positions
It'll be a Cannes Film Festival competition rematch alongside the critical darling (Best Director) winning competition film from the Venice Film Festival. Emilia Pérez...
The Seed of the Sacred Fig | Review
Way of the Gun: Rasoulof’s Bold, Blunt Indictment of Iranian Regime
There’s been little opportunity for artists to clearly or critically speak truth to power...
2024 Marrakech Intl. Film Fest: Neo Sora, Murat Fıratoğlu, Damian Kocur & Mo Harawe in Comp
The Marrakech International Film Festival have announced its complete line-up and in the official competition (first and second feature films) film titles we find...
2024 European Film Awards: Audiard, Guiraudie, Fargeat, Gomes & Rasoulof Among First Selections
The 2024 Fiction Feature Film selections are in and we have twenty-nine film titles as part of the first wave of eligible Euro items....
2024 NYFF: Corbet, Tsangari, Baker, Lesage, Guiraudie Plus Surprise Devor & Loktev Titles in Main Slate
We got a nice sampling of Berlinale (e.g. the Golden Bear winner Dahomey) and Cannes (e.g. the Palme d'Or winner Anora) items with a...
2024 TIFF: Kulumbegashvili, Zilbalodis, Lojkine, Soderbergh, Rankin & Sofia Bohdanowicz in Centrepiece Programme
It's year two for the Toronto Intl. Film Festival's Centrepiece programme - the place where we find films from the film festival circuit as...
2024 Locarno Film Festival: César Díaz, Simon Jaquemet & Tarsem Singh in Piazza Grande
It has to be among the best open-air public spaces at any festival to premiere a film and it also counts as a safe...
2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Rasoulof, Kapadia, Audiard, Baker & Schrader are Top 5
On awards day, there is what they call le reprise des films de la Compétition - essentially each film in the comp receives one...
Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 11
The narrative behind Mohammad Rasoulof's journey to the Cannes competition (his first) will be talked about for a long time. Escaping his homeland (and...
2024 Cannes Film Festival: Hazanavicius’ “The Most Precious of Cargoes” & Rasoulof’s “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” in Comp
Are we capping off the Palme d'Or competition at twenty-one? This might be the case as we learned this morning (looks like Variety has...
