IFFI 2017 International Cinema Catalogue

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Majid Majidi
Majid Majidi was born on April 17, 1959 in Tehran, Iran. He
started acting in amateur theatre groups at the age of 14.
After receiving his high school diploma, he studied art at the
Institute of Dramatic Art in Tehran. After the Islamic Revolution
of 1979, his interest in cinema brought him to act in various
films, notably Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s Boycott and Ali Azghar
Shadaravan’s Teer baran. His feature film screenwriting and
directing debut is marked by Baduk, which was presented at
the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight and won awards at Tehran’s
Fajr Film Festival. Since then, he has written and directed
many noteworthy films that won worldwide recognition,
notably Children of Heaven, winner of the Best Picture award
at the Montreal International Film Festival and nominated for
the Best Foreign Film at the Academy Awards, The Colour
of Paradise, which also won the Best Picture award from
Montreal International Film Festival and set a new record of
box office for an Asian film, and Baran, which won several
major awards worldwide, and received nomination for the
European Film Academy Award. Majidi’s previous lauded film
credits include Father, Song of Sparrows, Baran, The Color of
Paradise. In 2001, during the Afghanistan anti-Taliban war, he
produced Barefoot to Herat, an emotional documentary about
Afghanistan’s refugee camps that won the Fipresci Award at
Thessaloniki International Film Festival. Majid Majidi has also
received the Douglas Sirk Award in 2001 and the Amici Vittorio
de Sica Award in 2003. In 2005, he directed The Willow Tree
about a blind man who falls in love with someone other than
his wife when he gets the chance to see again. The film won
four awards at the 2005 Fajr Film Festival in Tehran.
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