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The Village Where the Roof Is the Road: Habitats of the World - Iran
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The Village Where the Roof Is the Road: Habitats of the World - Iran

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In Masuleh, a centuries-old village in Iran's Alborz Mountains, geography rewrote architecture: houses climb the steep slope so tightly that the roof of one becomes the courtyard and walkway of the next. The film follows that cascading layout through markets, doorways, and stairways where residents sell goods, chat, and go about daily routines several stories above the forested valley floor. Cameras trace the paths that link the village into a single connected structure, a striking contrast to the arid deserts that dominate much of the rest of the country. Local voices and everyday scenes carry the film's real interest: how a community sustains traditions of trade and craft while roads, tourism, and modern building materials creep into a settlement designed centuries before cars existed. The result is a portrait of a place shaped as much by slope and stone as by the people living on top of it, and a quiet question about how long that balance between old ways and new pressures can hold.