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Film in Italian: Tatami

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Tbilisi, Georgia. World Judo Championships. Iranian Leila Husseini is in extraordinary form and defeats her opponents one after the other. The gold medal is within reach. Her husband and young son follow her from afar, along with her lifelong friends; close by, a few metres from the tatami, her coach Maryam supports her. But the possibility that Leila might face an Israeli athlete in the final is unwelcome to the Islamic Republic. So the order comes for her to withdraw from the competition: she will have to fake an injury and abandon the world championships. Or find the courage to make a difficult decision.