Majid Majidi / Biography

Majid Majidi was born in Teheran in 1959 from a Iranian middle class family. He grew up in Teheran and at the age of 14 he started acting in amateur theater groups. He then studied at the Institute of Dramatic Art in Teheran. After the Islamic revolution in 1978, his interest in cinema brought him to act in various films, notably _Boycott (1985)_ from Mohsen Makhmalbaf and Teer baran (1986) from Ali Azghar Shadaravan. His debut as a director and screenwriter is marked by Baduk (1992), his first feature film that was presented at the Quinzaine of Cannes and won several awards nationwide. Since then, he has written and directed several films that won worldwide recognitions, notably Bacheha-Ye aseman (1997), nominated for best foreign film at the Academy Awards, and Rang-e khoda (1999), that has set a new record of box office for an Asian film.