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Majid Majidi
Majid Majidi
مجید مجیدی
	Majidi in 2020
Born	Talesh, Iran
Occupation(s)	Director, producer, screenwriter
Years active	1981–present
Notable work	Children of Heaven; The Color of Paradise; Muhammad: The Messenger of God;
Children	2
Website	www.cinemajidi.com

Majid Majidi (Persian: مجید مجیدی, romanized: Majīd Majīdī) is an Iranian filmmaker and producer. In his films, Majidi has touched on many themes and genres and has won numerous international awards.

Biography

Born in a Persian middle-class family, he grew up in Tehran and at the age of 14 he started acting in amateur theater groups. He then studied at the Institute of Dramatic Arts in Tehran.^[1]

After the Iranian Revolution in 1979, his interest in cinema brought him to act in various films, most notably Mohsen Makhmalbaf's Boycott in 1985.^{[citation needed]}

In 1997, Majidi directed Children of Heaven, which was nominated to receive the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Though it lost to the Italian film Life Is Beautiful by Roberto Benigni, Children of Heaven is the first Iranian film to have been nominated by the academy.^{[citation needed]}

Majidi has directed several other feature films since Children of Heaven: The Color of Paradise in 2000, Baran in 2001, and The Willow Tree in 2005 (alternative English title One Life More). He also recently directed a feature-length documentary titled Barefoot to Herat which chronicles life in refugee camps and the city of Herat during and after the anti-Taliban offensive of 2001.^{[citation needed]}

In 2008, Majidi's acclaimed film The Song of Sparrows was the opening film of the Visakhapatnam International Film Festival in India.^[2]

Majidi was one of five international film directors invited by the Beijing government to create a documentary short film to introduce the city of Beijing, in preparation for the 2008 Summer Olympics which was held in the Chinese capital; the project was titled "Vision Beijing".^[3]

Majidi pulled out of a Danish film festival in protest against the publication in Denmark of cartoons satirizing the Islamic prophet, Muhammad. He stated that he was withdrawing "to protest against insulting any religious belief or icon".^[4]

Filmography

Director

Film

Year	Title	Notes
1992	Baduk	debut feature
1996	The Father (Pedar)
1997	Children of Heaven (Bacheha-ye Aseman)
1999	The Color of Paradise (Rang-e Khoda)
2001	Baran	Director and Producer
2005	The Willow Tree (Bid-e majnun)	Director, writer and Producer
2008	The Song of Sparrows (Avaz-e gonjeshk-ha)	Director, writer and Producer
2015	Muhammad: The Messenger of God	Director and writer
2017	Beyond the Clouds^[5]	Director and writer
2020	Sun Children	Director, writer and Producer