"In the nearly 20 years that I've been attending the Cannes Film Festival, I've rarely witnessed anything as emotional as I did last May, when the Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof arrived for the world premiere screening of his new movie, The Seed of the Sacred Fig."
"Like some of his other movies, The Seed of the Sacred Fig was shot entirely in secret. That can't have been easy to pull off, though in some ways, it makes a certain sense for a drama that's all about the corrosive nature of secrets and lies."
"The story takes place in 2022, during the early days of the 'Woman, life, freedom' movement. Those protests erupted after a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman died in custody of the morality police, which had arrested her for allegedly wearing a hijab improperly."
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