Thirty thousand feet (2026)

On a flight from Tehran to Istanbul, eight-year-old Roshan and his mother, Simin, leave Iran behind. When the plane crosses into Turkish airspace, Simin quietly removes her headscarf for the first time. For her, it is an act of liberation. For Roshan, raised to fear authority, it feels dangerous. He only knows of a world where women are covered in public spaces.

As a confrontation with a conservative passenger unsettles the cabin, the airplane becomes a suspended space between oppression and freedom. Through Roshan’s eyes, certainty begins to fracture — rules blur, borders disappear, and he must confront the unsettling truth that the world is more complicated than he knew.

Thirty Thousand Feet is an intimate, true story about migration, motherhood, and the fragile moment when innocence meets freedom.