Offside

Director: Jafar Panahi

Cast: Sima Mobarak Shahi, Safar Samandar, Shayesteh Irani, Mohammad Kheyrabadi

(Sony Pictures Classics, 2006) Rated: PG

US DVD release date: 28 August 2007 (Sony)

by Mike Schiller

PopMatters Multimedia Editor

In Offside, both the men and the women are captives, prisoners of what the film presents as an outdated, archaic mindset.
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