• Director(s)

    Mohammad Rasoulof

  • Production Year

    2024

  • Release date

    13/12/2024

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    167m

  • Cast

    Mahsa Rostami, Setareh Maleki, Niousha Akhshi

Film

The Seed of the Sacred Fig

strong injury detail, threat, distressing scenes, domestic abuse

A man's appointment to investigating judge in Tehran has serious consequences for his wife and daughters in this taut Farsi-language drama, which contains harrowing footage of civil unrest and resulting atrocities.…

A man's appointment to investigating judge in Tehran has serious consequences for his wife and daughters in this taut Farsi-language drama, which contains harrowing footage of civil unrest and resulting atrocities.

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violence

threat and horror

language

injury detail

disturbing images

sex

discrimination

drugs

  • Director(s)

    Mohammad Rasoulof

  • Production Year

    2024

  • Release date

    13/12/2024

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    167m

  • Cast

    Mahsa Rostami, Setareh Maleki, Niousha Akhshi

strong injury detail, threat, distressing scenes, domestic abuse
Classified Date:
01/11/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Lionsgate UK Ltd/ Lionsgate International (UK) Ltd (film)
violence
A paranoid father imposes strict measures on his wife and daughters, which leads to intense verbal altercations and the man holding the women captive at gunpoint. Scenes also include shootings and intense violence between police and civilians during civil unrest.
threat and horror
There are sometimes prolonged scenes of threat, including a sequence in which a young woman is blindfolded and questioned by a male prosecutor. Civil unrest is captured on handheld video, depicting gunfire, explosions and home invasions.
language
Moderate bad language ('slut', 'whore') is accompanied by milder terms ('shit', 'bastard', 'God', 'damn').
injury detail
A woman has buckshot removed from her face in a sustained sequence containing close-up bloody injury detail. Smartphone footage captures dead bodies and people with bloody injuries in the aftermath of violence.
disturbing images
Video footage depicts violent clashes between police and civilians during protests, including a person being run down by a car, and people being beaten and dragged through the streets.
Classified Date:
28/10/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Lionsgate UK Ltd/ Lionsgate International (UK) Ltd (film)

  • Classified date

    01/11/2024

  • Language

    Farsi