THE CIRCLE aka DAYEREH

Year: 2000
USA: Winstar Cinema
UK: Artificial Eye Film
Cast: Maryiam Palvin Almani, Nargess Mamizadeh, Fareshteh Sadr Orfani, Monir Arab, Elham Saboktakin, Fatemeh Naghavi, Mojgan Faramarzi, Solmaz Gholami, Monir Arab
Director: Jafar Panahi
Countries: Iran / Italy
Language: Persian (English subtitles)
USA: 89 mins
UK: 90 mins
UK Certificate: PG contains mild psychological threat
USA Release Date: 13 April 2001 (Limited Release - New York)
UK Release Date: 21 September 2001

Synopsis

THE CIRCLE is a movie that looks at the lives of seven women in Iran and portrays their struggle against the restrictive laws that they have come up against and ended up in prison for at some time in their lives. On being released from prison though the daily oppression is still hindering them.