The White Balloon

Synopsis

In the bustling streets of Tehran eighty minutes before the Persian New Year (Nowruz), a stubborn, determined seven-year-old girl convinces her mother to give her their last 500-toman banknote to buy a chubby goldfish for the holiday celebration, only to drop the bill through an iron sewer grate outside a closed shop, enlisting snake charmers, an old woman, and a young Afghan balloon seller with chewing gum on a stick to retrieve it. Jafar Panahi and Abbas Kiarostami's Cannes Caméra d'Or-winning real-time masterpiece starring Aida Mohammadkhani.