The conditions in which The Seed of the Sacred Fig was made were impossibly prohibitive. Rasoulof had to direct the film secretively from afar and, when the shoot was completed, his looming eight ...

The melodic journey will transport the audience through a kaleidoscope of eclectic arias, both sacred and profane. The first aria, Non ti scordar di me by De Curtis, is a beautifully evocative ...

Section 15 criminalises any newspaper writing of ‘profane matter’ intending to “insult any religion ... including in far-off villages, conducted similar non-sacred fire-walking experiments. Today, ...