TEHRAN -- The date of the public premiere of the award-winning film “Offside” directed by Jafar Panahi has still not been set, the Persian service of CHN reported on Saturday.

Panahi had previously announced that he wanted to screen the film in Iran a month and a half before the 2006 World Cup.

“Offside”, which recently won the Silver Bear award of the 56th International Berlin Film Festival, was sold to France, Spain, Australia, South Korea, Brazil, Sweden, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Belgium, Serbia-Montenegro, and Britain.

The film was also received warmly at the 24th Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran last winter.

“Offside” is about six Iranian girls who disguise themselves as boys in order to enter Tehran’s Azadi Stadium to watch the 2006 World Cup Asian zone qualifier between Iran and Bahrain but who are arrested one by one.