Mirror's Tale

A guileless villager hauls his wool to town to sell it — and so opens Mirror's Tale (1982), an animated short you can watch online on iFILM.

Along the road a slick trader snaps up everything he is carrying and pays with nothing but a mirror. The poor man curses the swindle, right up until the glass turns out to be magic. Directed by Arman Manaryan, this ten-minute Armenian fable tucks a sharp little joke beneath its simple surface: no bargain is quite what it looks like. An easy parable made for family viewing.