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Offside Details

2006

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Starring	Sima Mobarak Shahi, Safar Samandar, Shayesteh Irani, M. Kheyrabadi
Director	Jafar Panahi
Genres	Comedy, Sport, World Cinema

Offside

For a soccer-mad young girl, a crucial world cup qualifying match for Iran's national football team at the Azadi stadium in Teheran is the game of her dreams. But with women banned from the country's football grounds, she and several other equally dedicated and rebellious girls have only one way of infiltrating the crowd... by disguising themselves as boys. But with sharp-eyed soldiers policing the event and obstacles such as the lack of women's bathrooms to overcome, the street-smart girls find they have to use their wits and every trick in the book to see the match... Shot during the official 2006 World Cup qualifier between Iran and Bahrian.

Starring	Sima Mobarak Shahi, Safar Samandar, Shayesteh Irani, M. Kheyrabadi, Ida Sadeghi, Golnaz Farmani, Mahnaz Zabihi, Nazanin Sedighzadeh
Director	Jafar Panahi
Studio	ARTIFICIAL EYE FILM COMPANY LTD.
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 25 mins
Certificate
Genres	Comedy, Sport, World Cinema
Language	DVD: Farsi
Subtitles	DVD: English
Released	Production year: 2006 To Rent: DVD: 18 Sep 2006

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- Having (inevitably) had The Circle and Crimson Gold banned in Iran, Jafar Panahi again displays disdain for... read more on Time Out
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  - 10
  Best film of 2006 so far
  
  And the best Iranian film I've seen (and I include in that a handful of Kiarostemi's!)
  
  This is a delightfully insightful story about a group ... read more »
  
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  - 17 Nov 2006 at 15:17
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  Not a film
  
  Please tell these weren't actors, as they were very bad, the story was good but need tension, pace and alot of editing in the end its a good idea just need ... read more »
  
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  - 24 Jun 2010 at 09:15
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  Can't be doing with poor acting
  
  We weren't sure whether the director had deliberately used non-professional acting, but whatever the reason the acting (even in Farsi) comes across as ... read more »
  
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  - 20 Mar 2009 at 09:55
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  For the Idiots who cannot read subtitles
  
  Please do not rent this film and say it's rubbish
  
  For everybody else......do not miss this GEM off a movie....
  
  It's charming,... read more »
  
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  For a soccer-mad young girl, a crucial world cup qualifying match for Iran's national football team at the Azadi stadium in Teheran is the game of her dreams. But with women banned from the country's football grounds, she and several other equally dedicated and rebellious girls have only one way of ...