Shirin (2008)
You are the screen, they are the audience.
92 min
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
- Country of origin
- Iran
Where to watch
Subscription
MUBI Amazon Channel
Cast
- Taraneh Alidoosti as Woman in audience
- Golshifteh Farahani
- Juliette Binoche
- Leila Hatami
- Zar Amir Ebrahimi as Woman in audience
- Hediyeh Tehrani
- Pegah Ahangarani as Woman in audience
- Baran Kosari
- Tannaz Tabatabaei
- Ateneh Faghih Nasiri
- Azita Hajian
- Afsaneh Bayegan
- Afsaneh Chehreh Azad
- Elnaz Shakerdoost
- Elika Abdolrazzaghi
- Iren
- Bahare Afshari
- Bahareh Rahnama
- Bahareh Kian Afshar
- Behnaz Jafari
- Bita Farahi
- Parivash Nazarieh
- Pouri Baneai
- Soraya Ghasemi
- Hamideh Kheirabadi
- Homeira Riazi
- Khatereh Asadi as Woman in audience
- Khazar Ma'soomi
- Mahnaz Afshar as Woman in audience
- Kamand Amirsoleimani as Woman in audience
- Darya Ashoori as Woman in audience
- Vishka Assayesh as Woman in audience
- Ra'na Azadivar as Woman in audience
- Pantea Bahram as Woman in audience
Crew
- Abbas Kiarostami · Director
- Farideh Golbou · Writer
- Abbas Kiarostami · Producer
- Hamideh Razavi · Producer
- Hossein Zarouri · Composer
- Hooman Behmanesh · Cinematographer
- Mahmoud Kalari · Cinematographer
- Abbas Kiarostami · Editor
- Arash Sadeghi · Editor