From the Mat is a cinematic immersion into the world of Iranian wrestling — a pursuit that transcends sport to become a vessel of cultural, national, and spiritual identity. Embedded with the national team and their families across towns and villages during the 2024 Summer Olympics, the film moves through crowds, rituals, and visions of collective fervor, where devotion blurs the line between the real and the sublime. Lyrical and cinematic in form, From the Mat is less a chronicle than a state of consciousness — a passage into the living soul of one of the world’s most ancient civilizations.