Climbing Iran

Directed by Francesca Borghetti
A Nanof production, co-produced by Hirya Lab, with the support of MIBAC, Trentino Film Commission, Club Alpino Italiano
Produced by Filippo Macelloni, co-produced by Giordano Cossu

SYNOPSIS

Nasim Eshqi after being a young champion in different sports, from karate to kickboxing, followed the call of the mountains, and decided to go beyond the barriers imposed on women in her country setting up her own route on the Persian rocks. “Gravity doesn’t ask me what my passport is. It takes you down in the same way, it doesn’t matter if you’re rich or poor, black or white, Iranian or Italian…”
The film portraits an extraordinary woman determined to push the barriers opposing her passion, whether they are physical, social, psychological, geographical or ideological.
Committed to “change things little by little“, she brings a few other young women to the walls of Polekhab, outside Tehran, teaching them how to climb and get independent.
Nasim has a dream that can become reality: open a “new route” right on the Alps to become part of the international climbing’s elite.

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