SEPIDEH

Driven by her hero worship of the first Iranian astronaut, Anousheh Ansari, and her astronomy teacher, Sepideh pursues her dream with a stubborn, single- minded determination. Aside from the strict confines of her background, harsh economic factors also threaten to derail her ambitions. When a competition arises that will allow her to gain a university scholarship, however, the young teen’s dream becomes tantalizingly real.