‘Climbing Iran’ at the Cinema Arsenale in Pisa on November 23, 2021 Events in Pisa
Tuesday 23 November, at 21, al Arsenale Cinema in Pisa the documentary film will be screened ‘Climbing Iran ‘, the story of Nasim Eshqi, pioneer of outdoor climbing in Iran and the only Iranian professional climber. The director Francesca Borghetti, Lorenzo Garzella and Evelin Franceschini will speak. Event in collaboration with CAI – Section of Pisa. The film won the Audience Award at the Trento Film Festival 2021 and the Libero Bizzarri – Italiadoc 2021 award and was also broadcast on Rai. Tickets are on sale on the Arsenale website and at the cinema cash desk (the membership card is always mandatory).
Synopsis: Nasim has strong hands and nails painted with hot pink nail polish. She is a pioneer of outdoor climbing in Iran, where women mostly climb indoors, during stability hours, only among women. After being a young champion of various sports – from karate to kickboxing – Nasim followed the call of nature and decided to go beyond the barriers imposed on the women of her country, building her own road in the Persian mountains, where she opened about fifty of new ways. The film is the film of an extraordinary woman, which guarantees a portrait of the barriers that oppose her passion, be they physical, social, psychological, geographical or ideological. Committed to “changing things little by little”, she takes other young women to the rock faces just outside Tehran, teaching them how to climb and become independent. Nasim has a dream that can come true: to open a “new route” in the Alps even when reaching Europe itself is a real undertaking.
NATIONALITY: Italy
DURATION: 53 ‘
YEAR: 2020
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: English, Persian, Italian
SUBTITLES: Italian / English
PRODUCTION: Filippo Macelloni / NANOF srl (Ita)
CO-PRODUCTION: Giordano Cossu – HIRYA LAB (Fra)
WORLD SALES: SYNDICADO Film Sales
DIRECTOR and SCRIPT: Francesca Borghetti
PHOTOGRAPHY: Davood Ashrafi, Corrado Measso, Federico Santini
EDITING: Aline Hervé – in collaboration with Ilario Monti
CAST: Nasim Eshqi