Danish film-maker Berit Madsen's documentary, Sepideh, Reaching For The Stars.

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Danish film-maker Berit Madsen recognised her documentary subject almost as soon as she set eyes on her.

Sepideh Hooshyar is passionate about stars and inspired by Albert Einstein.

She didn't necessarily have a film in mind, she says, when she heard about a small town in the south of Iran where an astronomy club was thriving, and schoolchildren went out to go stargazing.

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She was already making a trip to the country, she says, "and I was just so curious, so I decided to change my schedule, and see what was going on".

"I met Sepideh, and from that moment of fate, I knew that there was a film; that I needed to follow that girl and see what was going to happen in her life."

Sepideh, Reaching For The Stars is the story of Sepideh Hooshyar, who was 14 when Madsen met her; a girl in a chador lugging around a large telescope more than half her height.

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For Berit Madsen's documentary star Sepideh, the sky's not the limit