It’s International Women’s Day today, and i’d like to draw attention to the plight of an interned man. Jafar Panahi is an Iranian film director who has continued to make cinema shot in Iran that relates directly to the lives of her citizens, without being preachy, and just about staying on the right side of [...]
Offside winner
How can a film about women not being allowed to do something be uplifting? You need to watch Offside to find out, as, once again Jafar Panahi shows us that the best Director making feminist films is an Iranian man. Like the more wrought earlier work The Circle, Offside is about women’s lives in Iran, [...]
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