In the language of soccer, to be offside is to have gone too far, to have crossed an invisible line past which it is forbidden to go. As the exceptional Iranian film “Offside” demonstrates, if you are ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The teenage girls in Jafar Panahi’s new film Offside have a seemingly simple mission: ...

Jafar Panahi of Iran is one of his country’s great filmmakers, and “Offside” is his best movie to date. But you’d never know it from the way he’s treated in his homeland. Though “Offside” won the ...

IN the language of soccer, to be offside is to have gone too far, to have crossed an invisible line past which it is forbidden to go. As the exceptional Iranian film “Offside” demonstrates, if you are ...

Kick off the World Cup with Offside — an acclaimed, crowd-pleasing dramatic comedy from Iranian master filmmaker Jafar Panahi. Set during a World Cup qualifying match between Iran and Bahrain, the ...

IN Iran, everyone loves a good soccer match. But female fans are forbidden from attending public games, as “Offside,” a new film directed by Jafar Panahi, depicts in both comic and incisive detail.

On April 27, DGA members were given a glimpse of life in modern day Iran as seen through the eyes of young girls in director Jafar Panahi’s Offside. Inspired by the experience of his own daughter, ...

Like The Great Match, Offside deals more with the political and cultural implications of the world’s most beautiful game than it does with actual soccer. The film concerns a group of Iranian women who ...

A number of new films have been released in North America that WSWS film critics David Walsh and Joanne Laurier reviewed at the Toronto and Vancouver international film festivals in the autumn of 2006 ...

One might expect the activist potential enabled by Internet grassroots organizing might translate to actual results. But my efforts to raise awareness for the continued imprisonment of award-winning ...