Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Watching Iranian director Majid Majidi’s “Sun Children,” I was reminded of “The Florida Project.” One of the best films about ...

Iran has chosen childhood labor drama “Sun Children” as its national representative for the Academy Awards best international feature film category. It is the sixth time that a firm directed by Majid ...

The director of Oscar-nominated “Children of Heaven” shifts focus from his homeland with his first Hindi-language feature. In 1998, director Majid Majidi’s “Children of Heaven” was nominated for an ...

VENICE, ItalyVENICE, Italy — Restricted travel, quarantine and positive COVID-19 tests meant that Majid Majidi’s appearance at the Venice Film Festival for Iranian drama “Sun Children” (Khorshid) was ...

American audiences have embraced Majid Majidi like no other Iranian filmmaker, flocking to see his movies about a blind boy and an angry father ("The Color of Paradise") and young siblings in search ...

Majid Majidi, the acclaimed Iranian director, screenwriter, and producer, was born in 1959. He is renowned for his poetic yet realistic films that focus on children’s lives, poverty, and human values.

To cinephiles, Iranian director Majid Majidi’s always been deemed the poor man’s Jafar Panahi (or the poor man’s Abbas Kiarostami, per the next, more academic level of discourse). Of course, ...

Filmmaker Majid Majidi says he has no interest in politics, which is probably a good thing, given that he lives in Iran, ruled by hardliner president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But that hardly means ...

Watching Iranian director Majid Majidi’s “Sun Children,” I was reminded of “The Florida Project.” One of the best films about children of the 21st century, “The Florida Project” takes place within a ...