The Mirror (Persian: آینه Ayneh) is a 1997 Iranian film directed by Jafar Panahi, about a little girl trying to find her way home from school.
Mina, a first-grader, finds her mother has failed to pick her up from school.
The movie is about her endeavor to find her way home amidst the noise, confusion and chaos of Tehran.
Eventually, the movie takes a turn when the girl looks into the camera for the first time, breaking the fourth wall, and someone shouts from off-screen, "Mina, don't look into the camera!"
In a 2006 interview, Panahi said that the film was meant to show how "reality and the imagination are intertwined, they are very similar".