PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Francesca Borghetti, director of the film Climbing Iran. 

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A conversation with Francesca Borghetti, director of Climbing Iran, presented at the Rome Film Fest 2020. The documentary follows Nasim Eshqi, an Iranian free climber who defies social, cultural and natural odds opening trails in mountains all over the world. In this interview, the filmmakers talks about meeting her, her encounter with Iranian culture, overcoming challenges of making a movie in the wild and more.

Climbing Iran: A film about Iranian free climber Nasim Eshqi, who has strong hands and pink nail polish, and for whom free climbing is an expression of freedom and mountains her destiny.