The prize was announced at Egypt's El Gouna Film Festival. A jury of critics from 15 Arab countries picked Rasoulof's drama from among 22 European productions. The Seed of the Sacred Fig is a ...

About eating from the Tree of Life, God said nothing: “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die ...

Director Mohammad Rasoulof on current state of Iran as he heads to Switzerland's Locarno Festival: ‘The Islamic Republic Is Vulnerable and Unstable.' ...

Previous winners of the Arab Critics’ Awards for European Films, which was launched in 2019, include God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya by Teona Strugar Mitevska (2019), Undine by Christian ...