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  • "Like his previous hits The White Balloon and The Circle, [Jafar] Panahi's soccer movie Offside is blatantly metaphoric and powerfully concrete, deceptively simple and highly sophisticated in its formal intelligence," writes J Hoberman, who also interviews Panahi for the Voice.

    GreenCine Daily: Interview. Jafar Panahi. 2007

  • Some say he even cleverly timed his announcement to coincide with the international buzz for prize-winning director Jafar Panahi's film "Offside" -- a film about women disguising themselves as men to enter a soccer stadium in Tehran.

    Shirin Sadeghi: The Iran Game 2009

  • Some say he even cleverly timed his announcement to coincide with the international buzz for prize-winning director Jafar Panahi's film "Offside" -- a film about women disguising themselves as men to enter a soccer stadium in Tehran.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009

  • Some say he even cleverly timed his announcement to coincide with the international buzz for prize-winning director Jafar Panahi's film "Offside" -- a film about women disguising themselves as men to enter a soccer stadium in Tehran.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009

  • So, because The Offside is a soccer blog with a sizeable percentage of US based readers, some of whom I'd wager are fans of both footballs, I thought maybe this was a good place to make the case for peaceful co-existence.

    The Offside 2010

  • *** Watch a clip from "Offside" by Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi.

    'Witch': Toil And Trouble Joe Morgenstern 2011

  • The director's 2006 comedy, "Offside" also concerns the plight of Iranian women — those who happen to be soccer fans, but who are excluded from the nation's stadiums, even though they may be equal to Iranian men in their passion for the sport.

    Jailing of Iranian masters shows fear 2011

  • The director's 2006 comedy, "Offside" I'm confining these capsule descriptions to films that American movie lovers can either buy, or rent on Netflix, also concerns the plight of Iranian women — those who happen to be soccer fans, but who are excluded from the nation's stadiums, even though they may be equal to Iranian men in their passion for the sport.

    'Witch': Toil And Trouble Joe Morgenstern 2011

  • When it premiered in 2006, "Offside" won near universal praise from critics and the Silver Bear award at the Berlin Film Festival.

    Fighting for Freedom, Onscreen and Off 2010

  • That film is "Offside," a feature about a group of Iranian teenage girls desperate to sneak into the biggest soccer match of the year, the 2005 World Cup qualifying match against Bahrain.

    Fighting for Freedom, Onscreen and Off 2010

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