As the first elected councilwoman of her Iranian village, Sara Shahverdi aims to break long-held patriarchal traditions by training teenage girls to ride motorcycles and stopping child marriages. But when accusations arise questioning Sara’s intentions to empower the girls, her identity is put in turmoil. Mohammadreza Eni and Sara Khaki’s CUTTING THROUGH ROCKS takes us out of the usual fictional portraits of urban Tehran and into rural Iranian society, turning an intimate lens on the life and experience of a woman in politics and showing us how the dreams of a singular woman can challenge our understanding.

In Azeri Turkish and Farsi with English subtitles