Tag: Iran women

The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Posted by Deborah Young | May 24, 2024 | Featured, International Oscars 2025 |

Dissident filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof denounces the bloody repression of protests by Iranian authorities and the Revolutionary Guard in ‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’, his most angrily outspoken film yet.

Seven Winters in Tehran

Posted by Deborah Young | Dec 16, 2023 | Festivals, El Gouna 2023 |

The cruel and gripping story of Reyhaneh Jabbari, a 19-year-old Iranian woman convicted of murdering a man who attempted to rape her, unfolds like a thriller in Steffi Niederzoll’s documentary recreation, ‘Seven Winters in Tehran’.