The energy and protest of the ‘Sacred Fig Seed’

The backstory of Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof’s harrowing life could possibly be a movie in itself. He was arrested and censored a number of instances by the federal government for his earlier movies, however regardless of this, Rasoulof secretly made “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” a call that compelled the director to flee his house nation. “When the Women, Life, Freedom rebellion broke out, there was a sudden inflow of recent prisoners, and I occurred to be among the many group of people that had been pardoned,” she tells The Envelope by way of an interpreter. “When I used to be exterior, I requested myself, ‘How can I see first-hand what is occurring within the streets?’ so I looked for any movies that documented how the protesters had been oppressed by the system.” The result’s a robust and touching allegory, filled with metaphorical photographs, concerning the state and its individuals. Rasoulof means that the climactic body right here symbolizes “the burial of an influence that can by no means die.” “It additionally represents the concepts, ideas and beliefs of an Iranian minority that has submitted to the regime. They have submitted to a type of energy based mostly on an ideological perception that, a for my part, in actuality it’s not ideology.”