THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG

In the organizer's words:

Feature film - D, F, IRN 2024 - 168' - OmU

Director: Mohammad Rasoulof

In May, director Mohammad Rasoulof, who was threatened with a prison sentence, managed to escape from Iran. But it is not the external circumstances that make his latest film remarkable. The story of an investigative judge who has placed himself entirely at the service of the regime and abandons his ideals in order to maintain his position shows Rasoulof's ability to combine an unsparing indictment of the Iranian regime with a universal story about the loss of trust and cohesion within a family.

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