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The Mirror
Why this pick
Like Kiarostami’s child’s-eye journey, it finds suspense and moral weight in a young girl navigating everyday Tehran, with an observant, deceptively simple realism.
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MOVIE1987 1h 23m IRN
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
An 8 year old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Babak Ahmad Poor
Ahmad