Children of Heaven
Director: Majid Majidi
Genre: Other
Runtime: 76
Release Year: 1997
Cast
Amir Farrokh Hashemian as Ali
Bahare Seddiqi as Zahra
Reza Naji as Father
Fereshte Sarabandi as Mother
Dariush Mokhtari as Ali's teacher
Nafise Jafar-Mohammadi as Roya
Mohammed-Hasan Hosseinian as Roya's father
Mohammed-Hossein Shahidi as Alireza
Kazem Asqarpoor as Grandfather
Christopher Maleki as Sugar seller
Children of Heaven is a 1997 Iranian family drama film written and directed by Majid Majidi.
Siblings Ali and Zahra make an intricate arrangement to conceal the loss of Zahra's pair of shoes. However, when it becomes difficult to do so, Ali decides to participate in a race to win new shoes.
Initial release: February 1997
Director: Majid Majidi
Nominations: Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, AFI Grand Jury Prize, Silver Condor Award for Best Fictional Film
Budget: 180,000 USD
Cinematography: Parviz Malekzaade
Costume design: Asghar Nezhad Imani
