Real Grit
AWE FF 2025
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55m
Serge journeys into Iraq to attempt to do what no paraglider has done - hike and fly the Zagros Mountains. This documentary follows his mission despite the risk of land mines, being shot at by terrorist organisations and being arrested by the military. Serge learns the ancient Kurdish proverb that in Kurdistan one can have 'no friends, but the mountains'.
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