Synopsis
Mohammad, a boy at Tehran's institute for the blind, waits for his dad to pick him up for summer vacation. While waiting, he realizes a baby bird has fallen from its nest: he chases away a cat, finds the bird, climbs a tree, and puts it back. His father finally comes and takes him to their village where his sisters and granny await. The lad is a loving student of nature and longs for village life with his family, but his father is ashamed of him, wanting to farm the boy out to clear the way for marriage to a woman who knows nothing of this son. Over granny's objections, dad apprentices Mohammad far from home to a blind carpenter. Can anything bring father and son together?
Sections & Films
THE COLOUR OF PARADISE
Category: Edition 2000
| Original Title | Rang-e khoda |
| Italian Title | Il colore del Paradiso |
| Category | Official Competition |
| Section | Free to Fly |
| Tipology | Feature Film |
| Duration | 90' |
| Production Year | 1999 |
| Nationality | Iran |
| Directed by | Majid Majidi |
| Screenplay | Majid Majidi |
| Main cast | Hossein Mahjoub, Mohsen Ramezani, Salameh Feyzi |
AJID MAJIDI
Majid Majidi (born 17 April 1959) is an Iranian film director, film producer, and screenwriter who started his film career as an actor. In his films, Majidi has touched on many themes and genres and has won numerous international awards.
Born in an Iranian middle-class family, he grew up in Tehran and at the age of 14 he started acting in amateur theater groups. He then studied at the Institute of Dramatic Arts in Tehran.
After the Iranian Revolution in 1979, his interest in cinema brought him to act in various films, most notably Mohsen Makhmalbaf's Boycott in 1985.
In 1998, Majidi directed Children of Heaven, which was nominated to receive the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Though it lost to the Italian film Life Is Beautiful by Roberto Benigni, Children of Heaven is the first Iranian film to have been nominated by the Academy.
Majidi has directed several other feature films since Children of Heaven: The Color of Paradise in 2000.
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