Cutting Through Rocks

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Cutting Through Rocks *** Oscar Nominee, Sundance Grand Jury Award, Visions du Réel Audience Award *** IR, 2025, 95 min, Azari and Farsi with English subtitles Regie: Sara Khaki & Mohammadreza Eyni Resistance is an art - and no one has mastered it better than Sara Shahverdi: in her village in northern Iran, she has long been known as a troublemaker for standing up for herself and other womxn against local patriarchy. That she becomes the first womxn to win the election as village head is a sensation; less surprising is that she immediately begins to turn the village on its head. The film f