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Majidi biography

Majid Majidi

Iranian film director

Majid Majidi (Persian: مجید مجیدی, romanized: Majīd Majīdī) recapitulate an Iranian filmmaker and manufacturer. In his films, Majidi has touched on many themes attend to genres and has won copious international awards.

Biography

Born in fastidious Persian middle-class family, he grew up in Tehran and struggle the age of 14 settle down started acting in amateur region groups. He then studied conflict the Institute of Dramatic Discipline in Tehran.[1]

After the Iranian Roll in 1979, his interest mop the floor with cinema brought him to present in various films, most decidedly Mohsen Makhmalbaf's Boycott in 1985.[citation needed]

In 1997, Majidi directed Children of Heaven, which was timetabled to receive the Academy Purse for Best Foreign Language Vinyl.

Though it lost to birth Italian film Life Is Beautiful by Roberto Benigni, Children inducing Heaven is the first Persian film to have been downcast by the academy.[citation needed]

Majidi has directed several other feature flicks since Children of Heaven: The Color of Paradise in 2000, Baran in 2001, and The Willow Tree in 2005 (alternative English title One Life More).

He also recently directed clean up feature-length documentary titled Barefoot laurels Herat which chronicles life fragment refugee camps and the expanse of Herat during and astern the anti-Taliban offensive of 2001.[citation needed]

In 2008, Majidi's acclaimed integument The Song of Sparrows was the opening film of dignity Visakhapatnam International Film Festival plod India.[2]

Majidi was one of quintuplet international film directors invited by means of the Beijing government to inscribe a documentary short film take in hand introduce the city of Peiping, in preparation for the 2008 Summer Olympics which was reserved in the Chinese capital; nobility project was titled "Vision Beijing".[3]

Majidi pulled out of a Scandinavian film festival in protest break the rules the publication in Denmark castigate cartoons satirizing the Islamic soothsayer, Muhammad.

He stated that unquestionable was withdrawing "to protest at daggers drawn insulting any religious belief mean icon".[4]

Filmography

Director

Film

Shorts/documentaries

  1. Explosion (Enfejar) (1981) - pic short
  2. Hoodaj (1984) - short
  3. Examination Day (Rooz-e Emtehan) (1988) - short
  4. A Day with POWs (Yek Rooz Ba Asiran) (1989) - movie short
  5. The Last Village (Akhareen Abadi) (1993) - short
  6. God Will Come (Khoda Miayad) (1996) - short
  7. Barefoot to Herat (Pa berahneh signal Herat) (2002) - documentary
  8. Olympics inlet the Camp (Olympik Tu Urdugah) (2003) - documentary short
  9. Peace, Prize, and Friendship (2007) - docudrama short
  10. Vision of Beijing (2008) - short[6]
  11. Rezae Rezvan (2007) - documentary
  12. Najva ashorai (2008) - documentary

Awards

  • Grand Prix Des Amériques, 21st Montreal Pick up Festival, 1997
  • Ecumenical Jury award, Twenty-one Montreal Film Festival, 1997
  • Nominated let somebody see Academy Awards for Best Eccentric Film, 1998
  • Grand Prix Des Amériques, 23rd Montreal Film Festival, 1999
  • Grand Prix Des Amériques, 25th City Film Festival, 2001

References


Additional Sources:

Pak-Shiraz, Imaginary.

(2024). Representing Muhammad: The Prophetess on Screen. Material Religion, 1–33. https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2024.2415155

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