Aida Mohammadkhani, Mohsen Kalifi, Fereshtch Sadr Orfani, Anna Bourkowska, Mohammad Bahktiari
Iranian filmmaker Jafar Pinahi's debut feature The White Balloon tells the story of Razieh (Aida Mohammadkhani), a seven-year-old girl intent on buying a new goldfish in time for Tehran's annual New Y... read more 
DVD Release Date: January 14, 1997
Stats: 95 reviews
It was brilliant, specially the simplicity of the movie, It is about a girl who sets out to buy a goldfish, but things happen on the way.
This is a very slow paced movie. The plot is thin in terms and it frustrated me in the beginning with distractive style. However it is quite... read more
watched this when i was feeling sick and had a day off school... it only takes place on like 2 streets but it kept me wondring... it was sort of like you was on the quest for the fish as well.... i liked this movie because it was just realistic and like an everyday event that peo... read more
Right up there with the finest Iranian films I've ever seen. Aida Mohammadkhani is just angelic in her potrayal of Razieh. The film is a masterpiece in storytelling, something more film makers must stay true to.
I had to watch this film for a University project, and it was really very good. Short, but to the point.
We need to fall in love with Razieh to see the film properly, and we do. Full Review
Panahi has much the same kind of talent, a concern to make his film a kind of home for its characters, but he has not yet found [Kiarostami's] secret, how to find and hold the still point of the turni...
Raziah takes everything at face value, forcing us to look again at people and situations we would immediately judge as good or bad -- reason enough to see this film.
Panahi brings film back to its elemental magic.
There are LONG stretches of... well, real time.
Those with the patience to sit through all eighty-five minutes will uncover a sublime, unconventionally engrossing story. Full Review
In an era when ethnic hatred turns groups against each other, it is salutary to come across a film about universal qualities linking people from different cultures. Full Review
[Mohammadkhani] has no screen presence and more over was about as much fun to listen to as someone scraping their fingers down a blackboard. Full Review
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