BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:adamgibbons/ics METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:26916@offbeat.amsterdam SUMMARY:The Seed of the Sacred Fig DTSTAMP:20260901T201416Z DTSTART:20260927T120000Z DESCRIPTION:When a judge’s service pistol disappears\, mounting political u nrest turns a\nTehran family against itself as suspicion\, fear and author itarian power invade\ntheir home.\n\nIman is appointed as an investigating judge at Tehran’s Revolutionary Court. His\npromotion brings both prestig e and a new burden – as protests erupt across the\ncountry\, he is expecte d to enforce the state’s increasingly severe response.\nMeanwhile\, his wi fe and two daughters are watching the events unfold on social\nmedia\, inc reasingly questioning the system their father serves.\n\nWhen his service pistol mysteriously disappears\, the tensions inside the family\nreach bre aking point. Suspicion turns inward as father\, mother and daughters\nbeco me trapped in a struggle over trust\, authority and belief. What begins as a\nfamily drama gradually transforms into a claustrophobic portrait of a society\nconsumed by fear and paranoia.\n\nWith The Seed of the Sacred Fig \, Mohammad Rasoulof connects the intimate and the\npolitical with extraor dinary force. The film was made under the threat of\nrepression in Iran\, and its story draws directly on the nationwide protests of\n2022. Moving b etween the streets of Tehran and the increasingly oppressive\nconfines of the family home\, Rasoulof examines how authoritarian power\npenetrates pr ivate life — shaping relationships\, eroding trust and turning even\na fam ily into a battleground.\n\nThe film premiered in competition at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival\, where it\nreceived the Special Jury Prize. Rasoulof himself had fled Iran shortly before\nthe premiere after being sentenced to prison and receiving a flogging sentence\nfor his filmmaking and critic ism of the Iranian authorities.\n\nOn 4 September\, Mohammad Rasoulof join s us at De Balie for The Aesthetics of\nTyranny\n[https://debalie.nl/progr amma/mohammad-rasoulof-the-aesthetics-of-tyranny-04-09-2026/]\,\na convers ation about power\, repression and the representation of tyranny in his\nw ork. In the weeks that follow\, we present a small retrospective of Rasoul of’s\nfilms\, offering the opportunity to discover his remarkable body of work on the\nbig screen. URL:https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/the-seed-of-the-sacred-fig GEO:52.3630433;4.8828596 LOCATION:De Balie - Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10\, 1017 RR Amsterdam STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:amsterdam-centrum,cinema,festivals,film,leidseplein,stories X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

When a judge’s service pistol disap pears, mounting political unrest turns a Tehran family against itself as s uspicion, fear and authoritarian power invade their home.

Iman is appointed as an investigating judge at Tehran’s Revolutionary Cour t. His promotion brings both prestige and a new burden – as protests erupt across the country, he is expected to enforce the state’s increasingly se vere response. Meanwhile, his wife and two daughters are watching the even ts unfold on social media, increasingly questioning the system their fathe r serves.

When his service pistol mysteriously disappears, the tens ions inside the family reach breaking point. Suspicion turns inward as fat her, mother and daughters become trapped in a struggle over trust, authori ty and belief. What begins as a family drama gradually transforms into a c laustrophobic portrait of a society consumed by fear and paranoia.

With The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Mohammad Rasoulof connects the i ntimate and the political with extraordinary force. The film was made unde r the threat of repression in Iran, and its story draws directly on the na tionwide protests of 2022. Moving between the streets of Tehran and the in creasingly oppressive confines of the family home, Rasoulof examines how a uthoritarian power penetrates private life — shaping relationships, erodin g trust and turning even a family into a battleground.

The film pre miered in competition at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, where it received the Special Jury Prize. Rasoulof himself had fled Iran shortly before the premiere after being sentenced to prison and receiving a flogging sentence for his filmmaking and criticism of the Iranian authorities.

On 4 September, Mohammad Rasoulof joins us at De Balie for The Aesthetics of Tyranny, a conversation ab out power, repression and the representation of tyranny in his work. In th e weeks that follow, we present a small retrospective of Rasoulof’s films, offering the opportunity to discover his remarkable body of work on the b ig screen.

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