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The Color of Paradise
Why this pick
Like Children of Heaven, it finds immense feeling in a child’s everyday world, using clear-eyed observation, family bonds, and gentle visual lyricism rather than melodrama.
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MOVIE1997 1h 29m IRN
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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The White Balloon
Why this pick
Its modest errand becomes an absorbing child-level adventure, sharing the patient pacing, urban texture, and tender attention to small setbacks that make Children of Heaven so affecting.
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The Way Home
Why this pick
A quiet child-and-family story whose emotional power grows from daily routines, material simplicity, and small gestures of care—an intimate, gently paced counterpart to Majidi’s film.
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The Turin Horse
Why this pick
It shares Majidi’s faith in children’s perspectives: a simple goal carries real emotional stakes, while sibling affection and ordinary neighborhoods create a warm, observant human scale.
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Wadjda
Why this pick
A child’s wish for something seemingly small becomes a quietly defiant, deeply felt story, with the same grounded social detail and resilient youthful spirit.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The film starts with Ali fetching his little sister Zahra's pink shoes after a cobbler has repaired them. He leaves them unattended to buy some potatoes. While he is pre-occupied, a homeless man picks up the shoes, hidden in a bag, thinking it was garbage and takes them away. Frantic to find them, the young boy, thinking the shoes fell behind the crates, knocks over plates of vegetables and is chased away by the grocer.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Mohammad Amir Naji
Ali's Father
Fereshte Sarabandi
Ali's Mother
Behzad Rafi
Trainer
Ahmad Pourmokhber
Mash Ramezan
Seyd-Ali Hosseini
Ali's Friend
Bahare Seddiqi
Zahra
Amir Farrokh Hashemian
Ali