The Football Aficionado is a long-feature social documentary film co-directed by Sharmin Mojtahedzadeh & Paliz Khoshdel and co-produced by Paliz Khoshdel & Sharmin Mojtahedzadeh.

The subject of the film targets gender discrimination and women's rights in Iran.

[1] The film's story is about Zahra, a 27-year-old Iranian girl living in Tehran and a big fan of Persepolis, one of the capital’s biggest football teams.

However, according to an unwritten law, women are not allowed to go to stadiums and watch football games.

For this reason, Zahra decides to disguise herself as a man to be able to enter the stadium without foreseeing that her action would go viral across social media and be covered by the popular press, giving the example to other women and starting a movement against this discrimination.