Cutting Through Rocks vs Everest Dark

Everest Dark has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.6/10 for Cutting Through Rocks). Everest Dark is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 1h 35m. Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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Cutting Through RocksEverest Dark
Audience score★ 7.6/10★ 10.0/10
Year20252025
Length1h 35m1h 30m
GenresDocumentaryDocumentary
Country–Canada
DirectorMohammad Reza Eyni, Sara KhakiJereme Watt
Main castSara ShahverdiJaswant Dev Shrestha, Pem Futi Sherpa, Nim Tsiri Sherpa, Nima Temba Sherpa, Mingma Tsiri Sherpa

Synopsis

Cutting Through Rocks

37-year-old Sara Shahverdi, a motorcycle riding, land owning, former midwife-turned-fierce citizen advocate and recent divorcée, just won a landslide local election in her remote Iranian village and everyone has an opinion about it.

Everest Dark

Tourists line up at the foot of Mount Everest to climb the mythological mountain – and to tell everyone else about the feat. For the same reason, Mount Everest has become a graveyard full of the frozen corpses of fallen mountaineers. But the story of the world’s highest mountain also has another, overlooked side: the local one. For around the huge mountain between Nepal and Tibet lives a local population with their own worldview, which is very…

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