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‘My Favourite Cake’ directors Behtash Sanaeeha and Maryam Moghaddam receive 14-month suspended prison sentences in Iran. The film’s heroine is seen without a headscarf, and the filmmakers were accused of ‘disturbing public opinion’.

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The Oscars are more international than ever

Crime drama 'The Seed of the Sacred Fig' is nominated for Best International Feature Film at this year's Oscars —here's where you can stream it

A government official comes into conflict with his wife and daughters when violent protest grips Iran in the exiled director’s Oscar-nominated latest

5/5 If Mohammad Rasoulof was to make just one film worth having to flee Iran for, this gripping family thriller would be it

His new film, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, is up for an Academy award – but the film-maker had to direct it from his sofa. Even under sentence of arrest and flogging, he won’t be silenced, he says

Shortly before he was to be flogged and imprisoned for eight years, Mohammad Rasoulof fled Iran

Forced to flee Iran, dissident director Mohammad Rasoulof says it is bittersweet that his latest movie will contend at the Oscars -- under the banner of another country.

Here's what you need to know about The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Germany's entry for Best International Film at the Oscars 2025.

In this arts24 episode, we talk to fugitive director Mohammad Rasoulof about his powerful Iranian film “The Seed of the Sacred Fig”, a brazen and startling picture about the misogyny and theocracy in his country. The director had to flee Iran where he was sentenced to prison for his filmmaking.…