Offside

A FILM BY Jafar Panahi

Although its message is deadly serious, Offside is almost lighthearted, filled with wit and winning characters.""""

- G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle

Exhilarating, exuberant and drolly funny.""""

- Carey Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer

The delicately subversive [director] Mr. Panahi makes his subjects perfectly clear -- the stupidity of authority, and the hypocrisy of discrimination. Offside is surprisingly entertaining, and edifying to boot."" ""

- Joe Moregenstern, Wall Street Journal

Synopsis

In Iran, all Women Are banned from men's sporting events. In June of 2005, Iran defeated Bahrain to qualify for the World Cup. A disparate group of girls, united only by their desire to see their beloved team play live and in-person, disguise themselves in myriad ways, risking arrest to try to get into the game.