Going up the stairs : portrait of an unlikely Iranian artist / a Namaye Sefid production ; film by Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami.

"Akram is an illiterate 50 year old Iranian woman who became a painter unexpectedly when her young grandson asked her to work on a drawing... When invited to exhibit in Paris, she is at the mercy of her conservative husband: will he let her go showcase her raw talent or give in to his sense of tradi...

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