Mohammad Rasoulof's ‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’ both documents resistance and embodies it.
Mahsa Rostami flanked by Soheila Golestani and Setareh Maleki in a scene from The Seed of The Sacred Fig.On a cool fall night in October, just hours after Iran had launched rockets at targets in Israel, one of the Islamic Republic’s most famous dissidents sat a New York hotel restaurant and wondered if he’d ever get back home.
Iran has undergone a series of earth-shaking changes in the past few years. First came the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, which led to those large-scale Woman, Life, Freedom protests in the fall of 2022 and the ensuing crackdowns. Making the movie was its own form of risk-taking. Locations would often be sent to actors and a small crew just a few hours before start time. Sometimes production would come off. And sometimes the crew would arrive and quickly need to scatter; producers had spotted some suspicious people nearby, and it was too risky to go through with the day. “It was not a situation you could really plan for,” says Mani Tilgner, one of the film’s producers.
Bird told no one what he was working on and edited on an offline computer with his phone in the other room.As the film was being made, Rasoulof was handed an eight-year prison sentence for his efforts . Many in his cast and crew were brought in for questioning. His lawyer told him fighting such a sentence was impossible. All they could try was an appeal-based legal maneuver that might buy them seven or eight weeks. Rasoulof told him to pursue it.
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