Shirin

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.

Tarane Alidousti

Woman in audience

Pegah Ahangarani

Woman in audience

Mahnaz Afshar

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

Woman in audience

Merila Zarei

Baran Kosari

Tannaz Tabatabaei

Negar Javaherian

Hedie Tehrani

Fatemeh Motamed-Arya

Hanie Tavassoli

Gohar Kheyrandish

Homayoun Ershadi