Synopsis: Set in an isolated black pumice quarry in the Kurdish regions of Iran, I Dream the Mountain is Still Whole follows a lone figure, a Marxist dissident and former school teacher, recounting his struggles, hopes, and ideals as a committed revolutionary, all the while carefully negotiating the moonscape terrain of an everchanging mountain. The film is the second chapter in a multi-chapter project centered on the largely untold stories of dissidents who, following prison, were barred from intellectual work and forced into a new set of relations with society and the natural world around them.
