Arash Lahooti – Orange Days #ZFF2018

October 15, 2018

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Arash Lahooti, director of the film Orange Days.

After establishing himself within the documentary genre – The Trucker and The Fox Comes To Mind – Arash Lahooti presents here in Zurich his first attempt in the world of fictional cinema: Orange Days. Orange Days stages the battle of a courageous woman in beautiful, richly coloured images and shows a side of Iran that is rarely portrayed in western media. Interpreter: Urs Gösken

Orange Days: Swiftly, Alban is walking through a lush green plantation, inspecting her workers as they bring in the harvest. The assertive forty-something woman has been involved in the male-dominated orange business for years. She employs a group of seasonal female workers to harvest orange trees in northern Iran. This year she has received the largest order in the region – a fact that is not readily accepted by her male competitors. As soon as the harvesting begins, so does the sabotage on Alban’s work and she is forced to deal with the numerous consequences: harvesting is running slow, money is running out and her worker’s motivation is dwindling. To top it all off, her husband Majid packs his bags and leaves her.

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Arash Lahooti Nicolò Comotti

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Orange Days

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Zurich Film Festival

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