Dissident filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof talks about how he escaped Iran on foot after making his new political thriller, The ...

A family implodes against a backdrop of paranoia and protest in this deeply upsetting masterwork from the Iranian filmmaker, ...

About a half an hour before the start of my conversation with exiled Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, he gets tragic news from his home country. Kianush Sanjari, a journalist and activist who ...

Mohammad Rasoulof had to make the most difficult decision of his life. Credit...Joseph Michael Lopez for The New York Times Supported by By Amir Ahmadi Arian Amir Ahmadi Arian is an assistant ...

Exiled Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof’s “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” is a powerful indictment of totalitarianism and the Iran regime. The film, which won both a Special Jury Prize and ...

Just days after he finished shooting his latest film, The Seed of The Sacred Fig, Mohammad Rasoulof got a call that would change the course of his life. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Court had just ...

Mohammad Rasoulof’s powerful drama about the authoritarian Iranian government breaks a fourth wall, with consequences. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...