OFFSIDE
Jafar Panahi
TITLE
OFFSIDE
DIRECTOR
Jafar Panahi
PRODUCER
Jafar Panahi Film Production
STATUS
Completed
NATIONALITY
Iran
YEAR
2006
LANGUAGE
Farsi
LENGTH
88'
ORIGINAL TITLE
Offside
GENRE
Comedy
CAST
Sima Mobarak Shahi, Safdar Samandar, Shayesteh Irani
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SYNOPSIS
Who is that strange boy sitting quietly in the corner of a bus full of screaming fans going to the football match? In fact, this shy boy is a girl in disguise. She is not alone, women also love football in Iran. Before the game begins, she is arrested at the check point and put into a holding pen just by the stadium with a band of other women all dressed up as men. They will be handed over to the vice squad after the match. But before this, they will be tortured! They must endure every cheer, every shout of a game they cannot see. Worse yet, they must listen to the play-by-play account of a soldier who knows nothing about football. Yet these young girls just wonメt give up. They use every trick in the book to see the match. A smart comedy illustrating the violation of womenメs rights in Iran.
FESTIVALS
Berlin Film Festival
Toronto International Film Festival
Tokyo Filmex
Gij�n International Film Festival
Ljubljana International Film Festival
Istanbul Film Festival
Karlovy Vary Film Festival
Anonimul Film Festival (Romania)
New York Film Festival
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