Shirin (2008)

Drama

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.

Cast

Woman in audience
Taraneh Alidoosti
Woman in audience
Pegah Ahangarani
Baran Kosari
Tannaz Tabatabaei
Negar Javaherian
Hedie Tehrani
Fatemeh Motamed-Arya
Hanie Tavassoli
Gohar Kheyrandish
Homayoun Ershadi
Rana Azadivar
Sahar Dolatshahi
Woman in audience
Mahnaz Afshar
Rima Raminfar
Roya Taymourian
Bita Farrahi
Woman in audience
Juliette Binoche
Woman in audience
Golshifteh Farahani
Woman in audience
Leila Hatami
Woman in audience
Behnaz Jafari
Woman in audience
Mahtab Keramati
Woman in audience
Niki Karimi
Merila Zarei

Crew

Director
Abbas Kiarostami
Producer
Abbas Kiarostami
Producer
H Hamideh Razavi
Editor
Abbas Kiarostami
Editor
A Arash Sadeghi
Thanks
A Ali Karim
Thanks
Juliette Binoche
First Assistant Camera
N Nima Dabirzadeh
Still Photographer
N Nima Dabirzadeh
Story
Nizami Ganjavi
Director of Photography
Mahmoud Kalari
Original Music Composer
H Hossein Zarouri
Director of Photography
H Hooman Behmanesh