Majid Majidi

Majid Majidi (Persian: ‫ﻣﺠﯿﺪ ﻣﺠﯿﺪی‬, Persian

pronunciation: [mæˌdʒiːde, mædʒiːˈdi]; born
17 April 1959) is an Iranian film director,
producer, and screenwriter, who started
his film career as an actor. In his films,
Majidi has touched on many themes and
genres and has won numerous
international awards.
 Majid Majidi
‫ﻣﺠﯿﺪ ﻣﺠﯿﺪی‬

Majidi in 2020

Born Majid Majidi

17 April 1959
Talesh, Iran

Occupation 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

Biography
Born in an Iranian 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.

In 1998, 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.

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 (alternate 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.

In 2008, Majidi's acclaimed film The Song

of Sparrows was the opening film of the
Visakhapatnam International Film Festival
in India.[2]

Majid 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. Majidi stated that he
was withdrawing "to protest against
insulting any religious belief or icon".[4]
Majidi writes, "I believe in God and live with
my beliefs in every single moment of my
life. I would like to protest against insulting
any religious belief and icon. For this
reason, I would like to announce my
withdrawal from your festival."

Filmography: Directing
1. Explosion (Enfejar) (1981) -
documentary short
2. Hoodaj (1984) - short
3. Examination Day (Rooz-e Emtehan)
(1988) - short
4. A Day with POWs (Yek Rooz Ba
Asiran) (1989) - documentary short
5. Baduk (1992) - debut feature
. The Last Village (Akhareen Abadi)
(1993) - short
 7. Father (Pedar) (1996) - feature
. God Will Come (Khoda Miayad)
(1996) - short
9. (Bacheha-ye Aseman) (1997) -
feature (Remade in Tamil in 2019)[5]
10. (aka The Color of God) (Rang-e
Khoda) (1999) - feature
11. Barefoot to Herat (Pa berahneh ta
Herat) (2002) - documentary
12. Olympics in the Camp (Olympik Tu
Urdugah) (2003) - documentary short
13. (Beed-e Moon; alternate English title
One Life More) (2005) - feature
14. Peace, Love, and Friendship (2007) -
documentary short
 15. Rezae Rezvan (2007) - documentary
1 . Najva ashorai (2008) - documentary

Film E…

Year Title Notes

1997 Children of Heaven

1999 The Color of Paradise

2001 Baran Director and Producer

2005 The Willow Tree

Director, writer and Producer
2008 The Song of Sparrows

2015 Muhammad: The Messenger of God

Director and writer
2017 Beyond the Clouds[6]

2020 The Sun Director, writer and Producer

Awards and honors

Majid Majidi has received numerous
awards up to now. Here are a few:

Grand Prix Des Ameriques, 21st

Montreal Film Festival, 1997.
 Ecumenical Jury award, 21st Montreal
Film Festival, 1997.
Nominated for Academy Awards for
Best Foreign Film, 1998.
Grand Prix Des Ameriques, 23rd
Montreal Film Festival, 1999.
Grand Prix Des Ameriques, 25th
Montreal Film Festival, 2001.

References
1. "Biography" . Majid Majidi. Archived
from the original on 31 October
2016. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
2. "Art news in brief" . Tehran Times. 23
October 2009.
 3. Vision Beijing website Archived 24
June 2009 at the Wayback Machine
4. "Film festival hit by cartoon row" . 24
March 2006 – via news.bbc.co.uk.
5. "Children of Heaven gets a Tamil
remake" . The New Indian Express.
Retrieved 9 April 2019.
. "Shahid's brother Ishaan to work with
Majid Majidi, AR Rahman for Beyond
The Clouds" . Hindustan Times. 23
January 2017.

External links
Unofficial website run by his fan Fouad
Nahas
 Majid Majidi on IMDb

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