The Seed of the Sacred Fig

BBFC RatingThe Seed of the Sacred Fig

Showing: 15 February 2025 until 20 February 2025

Show Times

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Sat 15 Feb 2025
Sun 16 Feb 2025
Mon 17 Feb 2025
Tue 18 Feb 2025
Wed 19 Feb 2025
Thu 20 Feb 2025

Certificate15
Year2024
GenreDrama, Thriller
Director(s)Mohammad Rasoulof
Writer(s)Mohammad Rasoulof
LanguagePersian
CountryFrance, Germany
Running Time2HR 47MINS
Extra InfoSubtitled
SeasonMain Programme
Closed Captioning Descriptive Subtitles screening on Sun 16 Feb at 8.00pm.

Iranian director Mahamed Rasoulof (Manuscripts Don’t BurnThere Is No Evil) delivers this confronting drama that speaks to the dividing lines in Iranian society.

Iman (Missagh Zareh) is a judge who sees the benefits for his family in his career’s rapid advancement. His student daughters (Setareh Malek and Mahsa Rostami) are suspicious of his increasing collaboration with the regime. He is warned not to confide in his wife (played by actor and anti-hijab protester Soheila Golestani) as he is encouraged to wave through death sentences without considering the evidence. Iman’s divided loyalties are exposed when his government-issued handgun goes missing, and suspicion falls on the women in his home. What follows is a supremely dramatic wave of edge-of-the-seat revelations.

"A brazen and startling picture...its courage – and relevance – are beyond doubt -  ★ ★ ★ ★" - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian



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