Offside Panahi

Offside آفساید ‎ is a 2006 by Jafar Panahi Shima Mobarak-Shahi,Safar Samandar,Shayesteh Irani.Ayda Sadeqi. Golnaz Farmani 93 minutes

Girls who try to watch a world cup qualifying match but are forbidden by law because of their sex. Female fans are not allowed to enter football stadiums in Iran on the grounds that there will be a high risk of violence or verbal abuse against them. The film was inspired by the director's daughter, who decided to attend a game anyway. The film was shot in Iran but its screening was banned there^.

 “Offside” may not be as visually satisfying as Mr Panahi's earlier masterpiece, “The Circle”, which devastatingly exposes the lot of women in the Islamic Republic, and its cast of non-professionals is not always convincing. Nonetheless, the film- maker's idea of placing the young women in the custody of two bewildered and traditional-minded conscripts while Iran's most important match in years unfolds within earshot but out of view, is telling. United by their obsessive desire for Iran to beat Bahrain and qualify for the 2006 World Cup in Germany, but divided by their views on the proper place for women, the characters in “Offside” represent a society that is in the process of tumultuous and unregulated change. Iran's post-revolutionary film industry, which took off in the early 1990s under such directors as Abbas Kiarostami and Mohsen Makhmalbaf and has thrived in spite of increasing political and commercial pressure shows, in microcosm, some of the difficulties facing Iranians—and the imaginative methods they use to circumvent them.