Director: Mohammad Rasoulof

Cast: Misagh Zare, Soheila Golestani, Mahsa Rostami, Setareh Maleki, Niusha Akhshi

Daneye Anjire Ma'abed (The Seed of the Sacred Fig) is a 2024 Iranian drama, crime, and thriller film directed by Mohammad Rasoulof, produced across France, Germany, and Iran. Clocking in at 167 minutes, the film follows a mid-level judicial official whose domestic world fractures under the weight of professional pressure and personal suspicion.

What is Daneye Anjire Ma’abed about?

Iman has recently been appointed as an investigating judge at Tehran's Revolutionary Court, a promotion that brings both prestige and a troubling new burden. When his court-issued firearm vanishes without explanation, he begins to suspect those closest to him — his wife and their two daughters. As he tightens control at home and imposes increasingly severe restrictions on his family, the boundaries between institutional authority and domestic life erode. Tensions accumulate layer by layer, and the social conventions that once held the household together start to give way. The film traces how a single missing object becomes the catalyst for a slow unraveling of trust within a family unit, set against the backdrop of widespread civil unrest in the country.

Cast & crew

Mohammad Rasoulof directs a cast led by Misagh Zare, who portrays the judge Iman, alongside Soheila Golestani and Mahsa Rostami as the women at the center of the household's mounting crisis. Setareh Maleki, Niusha Akhshi, Reza Akhlaghirad, Shiva Ordouei, and Amineh Mazrouei Arani round out the ensemble in roles that ground the film in its intimate domestic setting.

Context & significance

Rasoulof has long worked within the Iranian dramatic tradition of films that examine institutional life and its collision with personal conscience. Daneye Anjire Ma'abed sits within the genre of psychological family drama, using the confined space of a household as the arena for a story about authority, loyalty, and fear. For Persian-speaking viewers in the diaspora, the film offers a work of character study grounded in recognizable social dynamics — the weight of a professional role, the pressures it places on family relationships, and the way mistrust can fracture even the most intimate bonds. The 167-minute runtime allows the narrative to build its tensions gradually and deliberately, giving each character room to emerge with clarity.

Where & how to watch

Daneye Anjire Ma'abed is available on K-Time in its original Persian audio with subtitles. You can watch on any web browser, TV device, or phone — no VPN required, no geo-blocking, and no extra download. Cancel your subscription anytime.