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Offside

2007, Movie, NR, 88 mins

OFFSIDE
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Three years after winning the Cannes Jury Prize for his tense drama CRIMSON GOLD (2003), acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi returned to the themes of his THE CIRCLE (2000) with another extraordinarily frank look at the difficulties facing Iranian women in a strict fundamentalist society. While lighter in tone and at times even funny, Panahi's drama about young women forbidden to attend a soccer match is nevertheless tough to shake. It opens with an elderly man franti... read more leave a comment
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Offside is an Iranian film about girls who try to watch a World Cup qualifying match but are forbidden by law because of their gender.
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Length: 01:42
Posted: 7/23/2009
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Offside movie trailer - starring Sima Mobarak-Shahi, Shayesteh Irani, Ayda Sadeqi, Golonaz Farmani, Mahnaz Zabihi. Directed by Jafar Panahi. Theatrical Release Date: 3/23/2007 Genre: Drama Rating: Not Rated
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Length: 01:35
Posted: 3/17/2008
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This internationally award-winning film casually and sometimes caustically uncovers what binds us - and blinds us - to the differences between our ways of life in the West with modern day Iran. Fascinating, funny and tragic, it's 'a gem of comic action' that explores the ambiguity between the sexes" (The Hollywood Reporter). The Tehran soccer stadium roars with 100,000 cheering men - and only men. According to Islamic custom, women are not allowed, and the ambitious girls who manage to sneak in are caught and sent to a holding pen, guarded by male soldiers their own age. Duty makes the young men and women adversaries, but duty can't overcome their shared dreams, their mutual attraction, and ultimately their overriding sense of national pride and humanity.
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Length: 01:31:36
Posted: 5/3/2008
Banned from attending sporting events, an Iranian woman tries various schemes to see her country's team play in the World Cup.
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Posted: 12/19/2009
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Year: 2007
Rated NR

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Cast
Sima Mobarak Shahi: First Girl
Safar Samandar: Azari Soldier
Shayesteh Irani: Smoking Girl
M. Kheyrabadi: Mashadi Soldier
Ida Sadeghi: Girl Soccer Player
Golnaz Farmani: Girl with Chador

 

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