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Āfsāīd [digital videodisc] = Offside / [screenplay by Jafar Panahi and Shadmehr Rastin ; directed by Jafar Panahi.]

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Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Classics : [Distributed by] Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2007]

Soccer -- Drama.

Young women -- Drama.

Soccer fans -- Drama.

Motion pictures, Iranian.

9781424837540 :

1 videodisc (ca. 92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

During the 2006 Iran-Bahrain match, the Tehran soccer stadium roars with 100,000 cheering men and, officially, no women. According to Islamic custom, women are not permitted to watch or participate in men's sports. Many of the ambitious young female fans who manage to sneak into the arena are caught and sent to a holding pen, guarded by male soldiers their own age. Duty makes these young men and women adversaries, but duty can't overcome their shared dreams, their mutual attraction, and ultimately their overriding sense of national pride and humanity.

MPAA rating: PG; for language throughout and some thematic elements.

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