‘The Seed Of The Sacred Fig’ Among 13 German Films Submitted For International Oscar German Films has said it has received 13 film submissions for this year’s international Oscar race.
Those films include Mohammad Rasoulof’s Cannes Competition title The Seed Of The Sacred Fig and The Investigation by RP Kahl.
The Seed of the Sacred Fig follows Iman, a judge in the Revolutionary Court in Tehran, who grapples with mistrust and paranoia as nationwide political protests intensify.
Rasoulof presented the film in Cannes after fleeing his home country of Iran. He had been handed an eight-year prison sentence by Iranian authorities for unauthorized filmmaking.
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