Draft:Majid Majidi

Majid Majidi
Name	Majid Majidi
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Personal Details
Birth Place	Tehran, Iran
Brith Date	14 April 1959 (CE)
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Religion	Islam

Majid Majidi (born 14 April 1959 CE) in Tehran is a famous Iranian director, screenwriter, and actor. With the film Children of Heaven, he was the first Iranian director to be nominated for the Academy Award in 1998 CE among 5 foreign language films. Majidi holds the record for the best director at the Fajr Film Festival among Iranian directors with four Crystal Simorghs. Majidi is also the director of the film Muhammad: The Messenger of God.

Biography

Majid Majidi was born on 25 Farvardin 1338 SH (14 April 1959 CE) in a family of Talesh heritage in the city of Tehran. After receiving his diploma, he continued his studies in the field of fine arts. Majidi began his artistic activity before the Islamic Revolution of Iran in the field of theatre. His first performance in Tehran City Theatre was a role in the play "Hurufi movement" directed by Davoud Daneshvar. In the 1980s and 1990s CE, he entered the field of acting in cinema and has acted in the field of Islamic thought and art and the Art Bureau of the Islamic Propagation Organisation. He played a role in the film Boycott made by Mohsen Makhmalbaf as a disillusioned communist, in the film Tirbaran as the martyr Seyyed Ali Andarzgo, and in the film Two Blind Eyes as a Tudeh teacher. Majid Majidi has been the writer and director in most of his works. In later years, Majidi turned to directing.

Filmography

• Short documentary Explosion – 1980 CE;
  
• Short film Hoodaj – 1984 CE;
  
• Short film Exam Day – 1988 CE;
  
• Short documentary One Day with Prisoners – 1989 CE;
  
• Film Baduk – 1991 CE;
  
• Short film The Last Village – 1992 CE;
  
• Short film God is Coming – 1995 CE;
  
• Father – 1995 CE;
• Children of Heaven – 1996 CE;
• The Color of Paradise – 1998 CE;
• Baran – 2000 CE;
• Barefoot to Herat – 2001 CE;
• Olympics in the Camp – 2002 CE;
• The Willow Tree – 2004 CE;
• The Song of Sparrows – 2007 CE;
• Muhammad: The Messenger of God – 2015 CE;
• Beyond the Clouds – 2016 CE;
• Sun – 2019 CE;

Viewpoints

Political Viewpoint

In the 2009 CE Iranian presidential election, Majid Majidi was among the supporters of Mir-Hossein Mousavi. One of the promotional films for Mir-Hossein Mousavi in the 2009 CE presidential election was made by Majid Majidi in collaboration with Davoud Mir-Baqeri and Reza Mir-Karimi, which was broadcast on Channel One of IRIB on 9 Khordad 1388 SH (30 May 2009 CE).

Cultural Viewpoint

Majidi considered Iranian cinema before the 1979 CE Revolution as a superficial and promotional cinema that had no correspondence with Iranian identity, culture, and belief, in which only vulgar films were made. He considered the burning of cinemas alongside government centres and SAVAK centres as a sign that the people of Iran had no attachment to them.

Criticism of Inhuman US Sanctions against the People of Iran

Majidi, at the press conference of the film Sun at the Venice Film Festival, referring to Sanctions against Iran, criticised the inhuman sanctions of America against Iran.