Offside [DVD] / a Sony Pictures Classics release ; Jafar Panahi Film Productions, a film by Jafar Panahi ; screenplay by Jafar Panahi and Shadmehr Rastin ; directed by Jafar Panahi.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2006. Special feature: Interview with director Jafa Panahi. Sima Mobarak Shahi, Safar Samandar, Shayesteh Irani, M. Kheyrabadi, Ida Sadeghi, Golnaz Farmani.
Summary:
The Tehran soccer stadium roars with 100,000 cheering men and only men. According to Islamic custom, women are not permitted to watch or participate. The ambitious girls who manage to sneak into the arenas are caught and sent to a holding pen, guarded by male soldiers their own age. Duty makes these young men and women adversaires, 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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