After celebrating its world premiere at the 77th Cannes Film Festival and receiving the Special Jury Award, Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof’s widely discussed feature The Seed of the Sacred Fig was presented in the Piazza Grande section of the 77th Locarno Film Festival. This section is famous for screening selected films at the world’s largest open-air cinema venue, which is designed to seat 8,000 spectators. The director has been having issues with Iranian authorities since 2010 for repeatedly violating censorship regulations with his films. Since then, he has been given three prison sen…