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Synopsis

PASSPORT SERIES FILM 4 OF 10 Six Iranian girls disguise themselves as boys in order to enter Tehran's Azadi Stadium to watch the 2006 World Cup Asian zone qualifier between Iran and Bahrain. However, their presence is discovered and they are arrested one by one.

OFFSIDE is a smart comedy illustrating the fight for women's rights in Iran.

Film Information

• Genre: Comedy / Drama / Foreign
• Director: Jafar Panahi
• Written By: Jafar Panahi, Shadmehr Rastin
• Starring: Sima Mobarak-Shahi, Shayesteh Irani, Ayda Sadeqi, Golnaz Farmani, Mahnaz Zabihi, Nazanin Sediq-zadeh, Melika Shafahi, and Safdar Samandar
• Running Time: 93 minutes, approx.
• MPAA Rating: PG for language throughout, and some thematic elements
• Language: English
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Reviews

"Jafar Panahi of Iran is one of his country's great filmmakers, and Offside is his best movie to date."

   - Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune

"So accessible and entertaining."

   - Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

"It's a sports film unlike any other, and a political film that makes the personal profound."

   - Noel Murray, The Onion (A.V. Club)

"Jafar Panahi's wonderfully funny, outspoken shaggy-dog story, a light counterweight to his sadder 2000 feminist drama"

   - Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly

"The interaction between soldiers and captives becomes a microcosm for an entire culture. It's a wisp of a movie but it has stayed with me longer than much supposedly weightier fare."

   - Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor

Showtimes

• Friday, June 22nd
  9:30 pm
• Saturday, June 23rd
  4:30 pm, 9:15 pm
• Sunday, June 24th
  2:00 pm, 4:15 pm
• Monday, June 25th
  7:00 pm
• Tuesday, June 26th
  4:45 pm