Although the conversation about the Óscar awards is almost exclusively on the nominees of the general categories, the authentic jewels are usually hidden in the best international film: among the nominated we had this year movies such as ‘Flow’, ‘The needle girl’ or ‘the seed of the sacred fig tree’, The 2025 movie with the one that has passed it and that you can see since May 8 In Filmin and Movistar Plus+.
The seeds of the revolution
IMAN is an instructional judge who receives an almost as well as the political disturbances in Tehran are unleashed. Your situation is complicated when The gun that has been assigned in your work disappears And he begins to suspect his wife and daughters, reaching extremes that will endanger the relationship with their family.
‘The seed of the Sagrada Higuera’ (‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’, ‘Dane-Ye Anjir-e Ma’abed’) is a co-production between Germany, Iran and France; and is written and directed by Mohammad Rasooulof (‘The life of others’). Permission Backed by the last Cannes Festival, where he won three awardsincluding the jury special, in addition to its nomination in the Oscars (the prize in its category at the end took it ‘I am still here’).
Spanish cinemas did not reach January 17 and its passage was rather discreet (At the moment, it appears in 74th position in terms of box office collection of everything exhibited in Spain in 2025). A true pity, because for me it is one of the most interesting films of the year.
The tape begins by explaining its title, which refers to the Sacred Higuera tree, whose seeds sprout at the foot of another tree And, as it grows, It spreads around it until it ends up strangling it. A symbolism that we will understand better throughout its two hours and 47 minutes of footage that, surprisingly, did not become heavy at all.
The filmmaker gets raise the thesis of your script without falling into literality more absolute: yes, we have the riots of all those young people and women who manifest against the restrictions of their government as a framework for history, but The evolution of its characters is more subtle and metaphoricalachieving a much more interesting result than if they simply gave us all the chewed reflection.
The tape starts from the concept of “The private is public” to extrapolate the debacle that occurs within that family. The script exposes the paradox of that father, who “gives everything for family welfare” and in theory is a pious person because “he feels objection” when signing a death sentence, but then he is horrified at the idea that his daughters can want to paint his nails.
-For their part, those daughters begin to realize that These riots are much more than simple news than to see as something distant from their televisions. The implication of a friend of his ignites the wick of doubt and everything that happens after his father’s gun disappears is nothing more than the confirmation that they were not as free as they could have thought.
Another very interesting character is that of The motherthat blindly follows the authority exerted by her husband (which has been taught all her life that must be “a good mother”, go), but His loyalty is fragmented when the security of his daughters is compromised And it is increasingly cornered with respect to what is right or not.
Throughout his extensive footage, The conflict is cooking over low heatachieving a fairly organic evolution from that calm starting point (although always with that social background tension), which becomes increasingly tense, until it reaches its zenith when things cannot go to more.
It is an distressing trip also for the viewer, because from the beginning we feel that something is not going well and we get a little more on guard, as the situation is complicated. Rasoulof knows how to dosing the storyas if it were Little by little the pegs of a pressure pot until everything jumps through the air.
‘The seeds of the sacred fig forceful story about Iran’s social situationbut also speaks of What happens when the family scope (private) It collides with the politician (public). If you missed it in cinemas, it is time to recover it now that it has reached streaming.
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