Offside Panahi
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.
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