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If you aren’t yet familiar with the incredible story of Laleh Seddigh, the first female Iranian race car driver who broke barriers and revolutionized the sport in the country forever, you are in luck because you have the chance to watch it on film!

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‘Laleh’ directed by Iranian filmmaker Essy Niknejad, released the film in the United States during Women’s History month in theaters, and it couldn’t have been a more fitting time to bring Laleh’s powerful story to an international audience.

‘Laleh’ tells the story of a beautiful, brilliant, Ph.D. student, a young Iranian girl Laleh Seddigh, an underdog struggling against all odds to break through the male dominated Car Racing clique in Iran. She faced the biggest challenge of her life, not on the race track but on her path to getting there by confronting the old traditions, such as family pressure to get married, a suitor from the Silicon Valley, backstabbing friends, drivers who ran