Majid Majidi

Majid Majidi, born in 1959 in Tehran, Iran, is the first Iranian director who won an Academy Award Nomination for the Best Foreign Language Film with his Children of Heaven. Majidi worked as an actor at first and then turned to direct some short films. His directorial debut feature, Baduk, was presented at Director's Fortnight in Cannes 1992, but with his second venture, Father, he got his first major prize at San Sebastian International Film Festival.