Free screening of “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” (college students only)

by Carolyn Classen, blogger

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19 AT 6:00PM

Free Admission

College STUDENTS ONLY; Valid ID REQUIRED

“Join us for a free student preview screening of the new award-winning thriller, The Seed of the Sacred Fig! This free screening is open to University of Arizona or Pima Community College students with valid ID only. Tickets will be available at the door on the day of the screening. Seating is limited. First come, first seated.

Germany’s official 2025 Oscar submission for Best International Feature Film

Winner! FIPRESCI Award and Special Jury Prize, Cannes Film Festival 2024

In Tehran, the family of an investigating judge is tested by the dramatic events following a young woman’s death in police custody.   Civil servant Iman has just been appointed to the Revolutionary Court, where he’s expected to extract confessions, serve death penalties to dissidents, and withhold information from loved ones.  As demonstrations against compulsory hijab-wearing rock the city, Iman loses his gun and suspects his wife, Najmeh, and their two daughters – who’ve been protecting a protestor – have stolen it, later subjecting them to interrogations as though they, too, have transgressed the law. Will Najimeh stand up to her husband, and to the state?   Responding to his country’s punishing political climate, director Mohammad Rasoulof crafted a searing domestic drama/paranoia thriller that captures the growing unrest among a generation fighting for their rights.  The Iranian director had shot the incendiary film in secret, and, after receiving an eight-year prison sentence earlier this year for his film’s criticism of the state, fled the country to attend its competition premiere at Cannes, where it won two major prizes.  (Dir. by Mohammad Rasoulof, 2024, Iran/France/Germany, in Persian with English subtitles, 168 mins., Not Yet Rated)“

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