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Offside: 20th Anniversary!

Dates with showtimes for Offside: 20th Anniversary!
  • Sat, Jun 27

Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.

Director: Jafar Panahi Run Time: 93 min. Release Year: 2006 Language: Persian (Farsi)

Starring: Ayda Sadeqi, Golnaz Farmani, Mahnaz Zabihi, Shayesteh Irani, Sima Mobarak-Shahi

During the 2006 World Cup qualifying match between Iran and Bahrain, numerous young women are caught and rounded up for dressing as men so they could gain access to the game. Guarded by several soldiers in a holding pen, the women attempt to keep updated on the score.

This internationally award-winning film casually and sometimes caustically uncovers what binds us — and blinds us — to the differences between our ways of life in the West with modern day Iran. Fascinating, funny and tragic, it’s “a gem of comic action… that explores the ambiguity between the sexes” (The Hollywood Reporter). The Tehran soccer stadium roars with 100,000 cheering men — and only men. According to Islamic custom, women are not allowed, and the ambitious girls who manage to sneak in are caught and sent to a holding pen, guarded by male soldiers their own age. Duty makes the 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. -SONY PICTURES

Doors Open 30 Minutes Before Showtime. 

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