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OFFSIDE Series: The 44th New York Film Festival [Sept 29 - Oct 15 2006] Director: Jafar Panahi, Country: Iran, Release: 2006, Runtime: 99 What does a girl have to do to get into a soccer stadium and cheer for her team? Plenty, when women are banned from such a “profane” male activity. The daring young Iranian women in this subversive celebration of fandom and feminism from Jafar Panahi (Crimson Gold NYFF ‘03) demonstrate a resourcefulness—and offhand rebelliousness—never before seen in Iranian dramas of sexual segregation. Even when their ruses and disguises prove useless, the gaggle of female fans guarded in a stadium holding pen just out of view of the game by equally young, bewildered soldiers (who would much rather be watching the game themselves) tweak the absurdity of the situation. There’s no finer or funnier Iranian political slapstick than the logistics of a boy soldier assigned to chaperone a girl prisoner for a toilet break. preceded by FOURTEEN Nicole Barnette, USA, 2005, 7 min. A young woman and her family prepare to celebrate a milestone. Screening at Alice Tully Hall, north side of 65th Street west of Broadway.

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