CUTTING THROUGH ROCKS

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CUTTING THROUGH ROCKS

WED, 12/10, 12:30pm, 94 min
BAY STREET THEATER

Directors Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni via Zoom for Q&A

Directors: Sara Khaki, Mohammadreza Eyni
Producers: Sara Khaki, Mohammadreza Eyni
Editors: Sara Khaki, Mohammadreza Eyni
Cinematographers: Sara Khaki, Mohammadreza Eyni

As the first elected councilwoman of her deeply conservative Iranian village, Sara Shahverdi aims to break long-held patriarchal traditions and stop child marriages by training teenage girls to ride motorcycles – teaching them self-worth along the way. When accusations arise questioning Sara’s intentions to empower the girls, her identity is put in turmoil.

The directors spent close to eight years filming in a rural Iranian village. The effort shows – the film was the Grand Jury Prize winner of the World Cinema Documentary Award of the Sundance Film Festival. Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni co-founded Gandom Films Production. Previous films of the directors include Our Iranian Lockdown and the Netflix original, Convergence: Courage in a Crisis, which received an Emmy nomination.