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Regent Park Film Festival Feature Film "Cutting through Rocks"

Hosted by the Consul of the Toronto City Explorers Group
Starts today at 18:45
Sun 30 Nov 18:45 - 21:00

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Winner of Sundance’s World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize

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SYNOPSIS:
Midwife by trade, motorcyclist by rebellion, and politician by defiance, Sara Shahverdi is a force unlike any her village has seen. In a remote part of northwestern Iran, Sara is the first woman elected to her local council, but it’s after the ballots have been counted that her true revolution begins. Fighting for women’s freedoms, she sparks a fire that stirs admiration but also doubt — and opposition.

The camera walks beside Shahverdi to illuminate the quiet, daily acts of resistance that define her. What emerges is a landscape where tradition and transformation collide, solidarity can flicker and fade, and the cost of progress is exacted in shadows. This is not just a portrait — it’s a reckoning with the risks of dreaming aloud.