From London to Kazakhstan, India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Australia and Hawaii, and a few other stops inbetween, NETPAC marked International Women’s Day with a screening of the Iranian debut feature Orange Days by Arash Lahooti.
Orange Days, still
The film stars Hadieh Tehrani as a farm contractor competing against unfair odds with male competitors to lead her crew of female workers to harvest northern Iran's largest orange orchard. Ali Mosaffa plays her husband. An empowering story of self-sacrifice, it was a very appropriate choice, made possible by board member Mohammad Atebbai.