Tonight at 9 p.m., Canal+ exclusively offers the broadcast of the film The seeds of the wild figa coupoint work hailed by international criticism and which ignited the last Cannes Film Festival. Winner of Special jury prizeof Prix fipesci one you Ecumenical pricethis Iranian film has already entered history. Carried by a remarkable distribution – Mahsa Rostami, Niousha Akhshi, Soheila Golestani, Setareh Maleki et Misagh izare -the feature film was appointed to Oscars and César 2024 In the category of the best foreign film. A feat for a work born in a country where to do cinema is often the act of resistance. Without having yet been viewed, The seeds of the wild fig promises to be a powerful mirror of fractures that shake contemporary Iranian society. And behind the intimate, a whole nation in tension is revealed.
A father, a judge, a man torn between his duties and his convictions
Iman has just been promoted to investigating judge at Tehran Revolutionary Tribunala key position in the Iranian judicial system. His appointment occurs in full turmoil: the street rumbles under the slogans of the movement “Woman, life, freedom”symbol of a challenge carried by thousands of women and students in search of emancipation. However, with him, revolt also enters without hitting. His own daughters, students and activists, take part in the protest. His wife, she, somehow tries to preserve the family unit, at the cost of heavy silences and uncertain compromise. The seeds of the wild fig Explore this permanent tension between the duty imposed by the state and the emotions that the heart dictates. This father, who is guessing torn, becomes the point of rupture between two worlds: that of obedience and that of uprising.
A disappearance of weapons with dramatic consequences
Everything changes when Iman’s service weapon mysteriously disappears. This apparently harmless event becomes the detonator of a dramatic gear. In a judicial system where the slightest fault can wave a lifetime, this loss is not just a administrative setback: it is a direct threat to his career, but also on his freedom. Very quickly, the suspicion interferes, the eyes change, the paranoia settles. Is it negligence, theft, or a political message? The film seems to ask this question without providing a final answer, leaving the spectator in the face of the moral complexity of a man confronted with the collapse of his bearings. The seeds of the wild figbehind the story of a man and his family, paints a portrait of a country in crisis where any gesture – even intimate – becomes a risky public act.
An intense family drama against the backdrop of muffled revolution
Through the disappearance of a weapon, it is actually a whole system that collapses around the main character. The film is part of this vein of Iranian cinema capable of combining politics and intimate with a rare accuracy. The atmosphere promises to be heavy, made of heavy silences, barely whispered suspicions and dialogues borrowed from contained tension. If we trust the Cannes reception, the film of [réalisateur non précisé] excels in his way of capturing daily micro-violence under authoritarian regime. Each gesture is monitored, each word weighs, and family balance becomes the last bulwark against ambient chaos. Canal+ thus offers a moment of cinema committed, necessary, and viscerally human. The seeds of the wild fig Do not just tell a story: he tends a mirror to a whole generation in search of freedom.
