One World Screening: Cutting Through Rocks

One World Liberec

Charismatic Sara lives in an Iranian village, where she becomes the first woman elected to its council. With her motorcycle and fierce determination, she carves a path through conservative society as she fights for the rights of women and children.

Sara's strong personality causes a stir in this patriarchal world, both at political meetings and through her love of riding a motorcycle, highly unusual for local women. She visits neighbours to help bring gas into their homes or to protect young girls from child marriage. She urges women to vote. She is nearly overwhelmed when the authorities irrationally pressure her to change her gender. Sara refuses to give up, and the roar of her motorcycle underscores her fight for freedom and independence, still denied to women in Iran. The film won the Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema Documentary competition at Sundance.

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