SHIRIN

Year: 2008
UK: BFI Films
Cast: Golshifteh Farahani, Mahnaz Afshar,Niki Karimi, Juliette Binoche, Taraneh Alidoosti
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Country: Iran
Language: Persian (English subtitles)
UK: 91 mins
UK Certificate: PG contains mild sex references and sounds of battle violence
UK Release Date: 26 June 2009 (Limited Release)
UK Distributor

Synopsis

Shirin is the heroine of a 12th-century Persian poem - a princess courted by two men. Portrayed as a theatrical production, the whole story is told by the faces of the women watching it - which includes an audience comprising over a hundred famous Iranian actresses including French star Juliette Binoche.