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.
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Cast
122 people
Taraneh Alidoosti
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Golshifteh Farahani
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Juliette Binoche
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Godzilla
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Leila Hatami
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Zar Amir Ebrahimi
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Hedie Tehrani
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Pegah Ahangarani
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Baran Kosari
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Tannaz Tabatabaei
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Morteza Hananeh
Ateneh Faghih Nasiri
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Azita Hajian
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Abbas Kiarostami Director · Mohammad Rahmanian Screenplay Hakim Nezami Ganjavi Story
United States release August 24, 2010 · Produced in Iran · Production Abbas Kiarostami Productions
Production
Kiarostami Foundation
Production
Abbas Kiarostami Productions
Production
Iran
Produced in
Languages
Original title
شیرین
Original language
Persian
Spoken on screen
Persian
Release dates
Italy · August 27, 2008
Premiere · Venice Film Festival
United States · August 24, 2010
Physical · DVD
Iran · January 18, 2012
Theatrical
Argentina
March 30, 2009 · Premiere · Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema
Australia
June 7, 2009 · Premiere · Sydney Film Festival
France
January 20, 2010 · Theatrical
Hong Kong SAR China
March 29, 2009 · Premiere · Hong Kong International Film Festival
Japan
October 20, 2009 · Premiere · Tokyo International Film Festival
Netherlands
January 22, 2009 · Premiere · International Film Festival Rotterdam
Thailand
September 26, 2009 · Premiere · Bangkok International Film Festival
Türkiye
April 18, 2009 · Theatrical · Istanbul Film Festival
United Kingdom
June 16, 2009 · Premiere · Edinburgh International Film Festival
June 26, 2009 · Limited theatrical
October 26, 2009 · Physical · BFI DVD
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