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Sara Khaki & Mohammadreza Eyni
IR DE US NL QA CL CA 2025 94'
⚬ Human Interest
As the first elected councilwoman of her Iranian village, Sara Shahverdi aims to break long-held patriarchal traditions by training teenage girls to ride motorcycles and stopping child marriages. When accusations arise questioning Sara’s intentions to empower the girls, her identity is put in turmoil.
Director | Sara Khaki & Mohammadreza Eyni |
Producers | Sara Khaki & Mohammadreza Eyni |
Executive Producers | Meadow Fund, Rebecca Lichtenfeld, Judith Helfand |
Production Company | Gandom Films Production |
Co-Production Company | inselfilm |
Cinematography | Mohammaderza Eyni |
Editor | Sara Khaki & Mohammadreza Eyni |
Music | Karim Sebastian Elias |
Sound Design | Miguel Hormazabal |
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary | Sundance 2025 |
Sundance 2025 |
| Runtime | 94' |
| Spoken Languages | Farsi, Azeri Turkish |
| Production Countries | Iran, Germany, USA, Netherlands, Qatar, Chile, Canada |
Sara Khaki
Sara Khaki is an Iranian-American documentary director, producer and editor. A Sundance Film Institute grantee, Sara is dedicated to telling stories related to women's rights, empowerment and gender equity. Her co-directed short, Our Iranian Lockdown, featured on The Guardian, was nominated for a 2020 IDA Award, which led to her co-directing a contribution to the Netflix Original documentary feature, Convergence, which received a 2022 Emmy nomination. Cutting Through Rocks is her first feature film. Sara graduated from the University of Maryland Baltimore with a BFA in cinematic arts and from the School of Visual Arts (SVA) with an MFA in Social Documentary Filmmaking. She is the co-founder of Gandom Films Production L.L.C., a US-based company that collaborates with top industry professionals to create socially engaging films.
Mohammadreza Eyni
Mohammadreza Eyni is a director, producer and cinematographer who works independently on socially relevant topics. As the co-founder of Gandom Films Production L.L.C., Mohammadreza has produced and directed international films, such as his co-directing contribution on the feature-length documentary, Convergence, a Netflix Original, which received a 2022 Emmy nomination. Mohammadreza’s co-directed short Our Iranian Lockdown, featured on The Guardian, was nominated for an IDA Award. His collaboration as a writer and producer on a fiction film has recently been developed at HFPA and Film Independent. A 2021 Firelight Media fellow, 2020 Sundance Institute Documentary Fund grantee and Tribeca Film Institute alum, Mohammadreza graduated with an MFA in cinema from Tehran University of Fine Arts.
