AWARD WINNER

SEED OF THE SACRED FIG, THE (15)

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Director: Mohammad Rasoulof
Starring: Mahsa Rostami, Setareh Maleki, Niousha Akhshi, Missagh Zareh, Soheila Golestani
Iran/Germany/France, 2024, 2 hours 48 minutes, Farsi + English subtitles

Dissident director Rasoulof personalises dividing lines in Iranian society in a family drama. Iman sees benefits for his family in his promotion to interrogator for the Islamic Revolutionary Court. 

His daughters, however, are suspicious of his increasing collaboration with the regime. Encouraged to wave through death sentences, he is warned not to confide in his wife (actor and anti-hijab protester Soheila Golestani). Iman’s divided loyalties are exposed when his government-issued handgun goes missing and suspicion falls on the women at home. Combining an electrifying generational battle with real-life footage of Iran’s contemporary protest movement gives the film a startling relevance. What follows involves supremely dramatic, edge-of-the-seat revelations.

“an eloquent record of and warning to a regime clinging to power at the expense of freedom.” Sight and Sound
Nominated for International Feature Oscar and Film Not In the English Langauge BAFTA
SCREENING SCHEDULE
MALVERN THEATRES
HEREFORD, THE COURTYARD
HEREFORD, THE COURTYARD
LUDLOW ASSEMBLY ROOMS
MALVERN THEATRES

The screening on Sunday in Hereford is sponsored by