Ventnor Film Society present Offside at The Ventnor Winter Gardens.
How do you fancy watching an Iranian comedy about female football fans?
Released to coincide with the 2006 football World Cup for which Iran qualified, Offside is a vibrant, bitter-sweet work from writer/director Jafar Panahi.
Shot on hand-held digital video cameras with a fly-on-the-wall immediacy and engagingly acted by a non-professional cast, it follows the efforts of various unnamed young women football fanatics to sneak into a crucial international qualifying game at Tehran’s Azadi stadium, in a country where women are forbidden from attending soccer matches.
A gentle and charmingly funny film.
Iran 2006 93mins Cert PG
Dir: Jafar Panahi
Cast: Sima Mobarak-Shahi, Shayestah Irani, Ayda Sadegi, Goinaz Farmani
Venue: Ventnor Winter Gardens
Curtains up: at 7.30pm
Tickets: £4.50 (£3.50 conc)
