Majid Majidi was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1959. He made his directorial debut with the feature film Baduk (1992), which was invited to the Critics’ Week at Cannes. He went on to direct Children of Heaven (1997), the first Iranian film to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, followed by The Color of Paradise (1999), Baran (2001), The Song of Sparrows (2008), and many more. His work has been presented and awarded at major international film festivals, including Berlin, Venice, San Sebastián, and Montréal. Sun Children (2020), one of his recent films, competed at the Venice International Film Festival, where its lead actor, Rouhollah Zamani, received the Marcello Mastroianni Award.
