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The Circle (Persian: دایره, translit. Dayereh) is a 2000 Iranian drama film produced and directed by Jafar Panahi that criticizes the treatment of women in Iran. The film has won several awards, including the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 2000, but it is banned in Iran.
The film begins in a maternity ward of a hospital, where the mother of Solmaz Gholami is upset to learn that her daughter has just given birth to a girl, even though the ultrasound indicated that the baby would be a boy. Worrying that her in-laws will force their son to divorce her daughter, she tells another daughter to call her uncles.
At the phone booth, she passes by three young women, including Arezou and Nargess, who have just escaped prison. The three of them are trying to come up with money so that they can go to Nargess's home village. The third prisoner is immediately arrested, as she tries to pawn a gold chain, leaving just the two women. Nargess spots what she thinks is a landscape-painting of her hometown at a nearby shop and describes to Arezou the paradise awaiting them at the end of their bus journey. Arezou in the meantime finds enough money from an acquaintance to get Nargess a bus ticket, deciding not to go herself. The two of them separate.
Interlocking tales show the plight of contemporary Iranian women and the oppression that they endure from their families, their government, and the cultural norms of the patriarchal society in which they live. http://www.firouzanfilms.com/TheFirouzanFifty/Movies/TheCircle/index.html
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Jafar Panahi The Circle (Dayereh) 2000
Dayereh دایره (English Translation The Circle) Persian Movie Director: Jafar Panahi Year of Release: 2000 Good Work of Iran must reach to the outside world! Various women struggle to function in the oppressively sexist society of contemporary Iran.
Interlocking tales show the plight of contemporary Iranian women and the oppression that they endure from their families, their government, and the cultural norms of the patriarchal society in which they live. http://www.firouzanfilms.com/TheFirouzanFifty/Movies/TheCircle/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Circle_(2000_film)
Saturday afternoon the sunshine pours like wine through the window
And I know golden June can turn an empty grey against your window
And I feel like I'm on the outside of a circle
If I walk by the trees I'll catch the falling leaves if the wind blows
And I know all this means is whiling on the hours watching side-shows
And I feel like I'm on the outside of a circle
Will I turn my coat to the rain but I don't know
I'm going somewhere I can warm my bones
Fare you well I'll carry me away
And sing for those I know upon their birthdays
And I feel like I'm on the outside