Shirin

• Cast: Taraneh Alidoosti, Hedie Tehrani, Golshifteh Farahani, Baran Kosari, Pegah Ahangarani
• Duration: 92 minutes
• Genre: Drama
• Rating: 6.1/10
• Release Date: 2009-04-18

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.