Daughters of the Sun (2004)

A prime example of Iranian cinema, DAUGHTERS OF THE SUN picked up a Best First Feature award at the Montreal Festival of World Cinema. The story centers around the plight of a woman struggling to find work in the male-dominated Iranian society. Disguising herself as a boy, she takes a job in a carpet workshop where she toils over some dehumanizing labor in an attempt to feed her family. But when a woman she works with falls for her, the situation become incredibly complex. An absorbing look at the female oppression that wreaks havoc on lives throughout Iran, DAUGHTERS OF THE SUN is a powerful inditement of a country struggling to catch up with Western norms.