Shirin

You are the screen, they are the audience.

A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the text -- long a favorite in Persia and the Middle East -- remains invisible to the viewer of the film, the whole story is told by the faces of the women watching the show.

• Release date
• April 18, 2009
• Runtime
• 92 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Abbas Kiarostami

Cast

Taraneh Alidoosti Golshifteh Farahani Juliette Binoche Leila Hatami Zar Amir Ebrahimi Hedie Tehrani Pegah Ahangarani Baran Kosari