The Mirror

The Mirror (آینه, 1997) is an Iranian drama from Jafar Panahi you can watch online on iFILM. A small girl waits outside her Tehran school. Her mother never comes. She sets off alone.

Mina Mohammad Khani plays the child, her arm in a cast, trying to navigate the city's traffic, crowded buses and indifferent strangers entirely on her own. Panahi shot it with an almost documentary eye — Tehran flows around her without pausing. The film took home the Golden Leopard at Locarno in 1997, and its quiet insistence on the child's-eye view of a city gives it a persistent, peculiar power. Stream The Mirror online on iFILM.