Watch The Circle (Dayereh) online

"The "circle" in Jafar Panahi's great film is many things: thestructure of the film itself, which ends with the same image itbegins with; a location in Teheran, where a character meets afriend in a movie theater; the circular stairs so many othercharacters run up and down; the circling, hovering cameramovements that bring us face to face with the women in theseinterlinked stories and the world they are caught in"