Ella Harold, editor at Fig Tree, has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to Family Friends, the third novel by writer and ...

That’s because figs are a popular passalong plant. That means they were grown using cuttings taken from older trees or those belonging to family and friends. Whether you want to start a new fig ...

This slow burn thriller from Iran exposes the brutality of authoritarianism and its devastating impact on families.

“The Seed of the Sacred Fig” is consistently setting up the dichotomy of the gilded cage safety of the (women of this) family against the violence unfurling outside. In a particularly ...

And at that point, I thought it would be very interesting to make a film about a family like his, with this profound rift at ...

Mohammad Rasoulof's anti-authoritarian treatise defies categorization, a searing indictment of Iran's theocracy.

“The Seed of the Sacred Fig” is a representation of how the state uses both ideological and physically repressive means to maintain its political and, in this case, religious legitimacy. In the film, ...

Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof is now an Oscar-nominated refugee, in a bittersweet harvest for his film The Seed of the ...

When it comes to art corresponding with life, consider the authoritarian drama The Seed of the Sacred Fig, written and ...

I happen to come from a big fig family — Phlur’s Father Figure is one of my favorites, and Diptyque’s Philosykos is one of my sister’s favorites. TikTok has been on a matcha kick as of ...

Then came The Seed of the Sacred Fig, a (now Oscar-nominated) family-set political thriller and blistering attack on the regime. After refusing to remove the film from Cannes last year ...

International Oscar film nominees reflect common threads and political turmoil, dealing with deep-rooted issues in their ...