EXCLUSIVE: In the award-winning documentary Cutting Through Rocks, tears come to the eyes of Sara Shahverdi as she reflects on intense pressure she has faced for flouting convention. “They want me to ...
Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni’s Cutting Through Rocks follows Sara Shahverdi, a middle-aged divorcee in a remote and extremely conservative region of the Islamic Republic of Iran. What makes the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But perhaps most surprising is that so much of Shahverdi’s family and community admire her, enough so that she running to become ...
Revolution begins through education. Teach the masses they have the power, and the rest takes care of itself... mostly. In the documentary Cutting Through Rocks, directors Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza ...
Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni’s precisely lensed film follows Sara Shahverdi, the first councilwoman in the history of her remote village. But perhaps most surprising is that so much of Shahverdi’s ...