The rural center of Gignac and Ciné Lot are offering a screening of Mohammad Rasoulof's film “The Seeds of the Wild Fig Tree”, Tuesday January 7 at 8:30 p.m. in the Robert-Soulié village hall.
A very great film, presented by Germany in official competition at Cannes in 2024; the film received the special jury prize and several prestigious prizes including the François Chalais prize.
Synopsis: “The story focuses on Iman, his wife and two daughters. Iman is an honest civil servant, a jurist who, after twenty years, was appointed an investigator at the revolutionary court in Tehran. With his new status, more empowering, Iman discovers that he is expected to endorse the death sentences decided by the prosecutor, without even studying the files.
When he signed his commitment, he was given a pistol for his protection and that of his family, a pistol which he stored in his bedside table every evening.
At the same time, following the assassination by religious police of Masha Jina Amini, a 22-year-old young Iranian student of Kurdish origin, a huge popular protest movement began to shake Iran. The “Women, Life, Freedom” movement against the compulsory wearing of the hijab is mobilizing thousands of Iranians.
Iman's daughters, Rezvan and Sana, students, participate in the demonstrations and virulently support the movement; his wife, Najmeh, tries to accommodate both camps.
Paranoia invades Iman; when his wife and two daughters help a student injured during a charge by the religious police and when his service weapon mysteriously disappears… This loss could land him in prison and put an end to his social ascension. He becomes suspicious of the three women of the household; thinking that one of them took his gun and is lying to him…
Tuesday January 7 at 8:30 p.m., Ciné Lot prices: adults €6, under 25s €3.
