Offside [videorecording (DVD)] / a Sony Pictures Classics release ; Jafar Panahi Film Productions, a film by Jafar Panahi ; screenplay by Jafar Panahi and Shadmehr Rastin ; concept, editor, producerd and directed by Jafar Panahi.
This DVD is copy protected. Originally released as a motion picture in 2006. Sima Mobarak Shahi, Safar Samandar, Shayesteh Irani, M. Kheyrabadi, Ida Sadeghi, Golnaz Farmani. Special feature: Interview with director Jafar Panahi.
Summary:
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 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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