The Circle

El Círculo / Dayereh

Persian audio, Spanish subtitles · Filmoteca

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 the parents of the child's father 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.

Director

Jafar Panahi

Starring

Fereshteh Sadre-Orafaee, Fatemeh Naghavi

Not in English. Persian audio, spanish subtitles.