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Jafar Panahi's wonderful Iranian comedy Offside could hardly sound simpler. Defying a ban on women attending soccer matches, a pair of headstrong teenage girls dress up as boys and sneak into a Tehran stadium to watch a World Cup qualifying game. They're promptly caught and, along with some other girls like them, get put in a makeshift pen where they swap experiences, attempt to slip free, and banter with their guards, two young male soldiers who, in their own way, are also trapped. Stories about women under fundamentalist Islam tend ...