The White Balloon U

A masterpiece about a little girl who won’t take no for an answer. Razieh wants a new goldfish to celebrate the Iranian New Year, even though she’s already got several. But tricking her mum into giving her the money is just the start of her adventure. What’s a white balloon got to do with it? You’ll have to wait to the end to find out. Utterly real, quietly hilarious, totally brilliant. Jafar Jafar Panahi became the first Iranian filmmaker to win a major prize at Cannes when “The White Balloon” was awarded the Camera d’Or in 1995. In 2010, the Iranian authorities sentenced him to six years for subversion, though he has yet to be sent to jail, and banned him from filmmaking for 20 years. Watch “The White Balloon” in solidarity.

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