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The Mirror(Ayneh)

  • Dir: Jafar Panahi

  • Iran, 1997, Persian, 95mins, DCP

  • Cast: Mina Mohammad Khani, Aida Mohammadkhani, Kazem Mojdehi

More illuminating of Islamic society than The White Balloon, Panahi’s Golden Leopard award winner reflects the realistic journey of a young girl while simultaneously questioning cinema’s role in holding a mirror to society. ‘I don’t want to act anymore!’ when Mina, who plays a girl trying to find her way home alone in chaotic, traffic-clogged Tehran, suddenly rebels against her role and walks off the set, what first appears to be a neorealist film abruptly turns into a real-time documentary. Schizophrenic but surprisingly coherent, this unpredictable change in direction evokes complicated exploration of cinematic illusion and reality, alongside a revelation of the status of women in Iran.

Locarno Film Festival: Golden Leopard for Best Film

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    In-theatre Screening

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    The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project through the Film Development Fund.
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    The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project through the Film Development Fund.
    The funding support bears no relationship whatsoever to the content of, or views expressed in this project.