Oscar-nominated Iranian doc offers different vision of leadership is drawing significant interest across the industry.
Iran's first Oscar-nominated documentary will compete in Hollywood at a time of incredible tumult at home, days after US-Israeli strikes killed the country's long-time supreme leader.As the Islamist regime scrabbles to shore itself up in the wake of the death of the hardline Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, "Cutting Through Rocks" offers a different vision of leadership in a country dominated by male clerics for half a century."We have a character in our film that really uses the power that she has to empower others," co-director Mohammadreza Eyni told AFP.
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