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‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’: Movie Analysis of Fear and Power

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Mehran Amrohi August 13, 2026

A family is sitting together at home. There is nothing unusual about the moment. A father comes home from work, his wife worries about him, and his daughters are busy with their own lives. It could be any family. But in The Seed of the Sacred Fig, the outside world slowly begins to enter this home. To understand what is happening outside, we have to go back to Iran in

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