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This early feature from Jafar Panahi explores the interplay of imagination and reality, creating a slyly inventive meta-film marvel.
When her mother is late to pick her up from school, first grader Mina (played by Mina Mohammad Khani) takes matters into her own hands, navigating the public transport and bustling traffic of Tehran on a precarious adventure of the everyday.
But what begins as a child’s-eye portrait of Iranian society soon reveals itself to be something even richer and more surprising, as a frustrated Mina appears to shuck off the role that she has been cast in and set off apparently alone ‘for real’.
Working in an uncertain space between fiction and non-fiction, Panahi – then a protégé of Abbas Kiarostami – turns the conventions of narrative filmmaking inside out.
Playing as part of our Jafar Panahi retrospective. See the full line up.
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Please note: There are only 5 mins of trailers before our screenings.
Please note: There are only 5 mins of trailers before our screenings.