EVENT: SCREENING
CATEGORY: ISLAM AND THE WEST SERIES
DIRECTOR: MAJID MAJIDI

COUNTRY: IRAN
LENGTH: 89 MINUTES
LANGUAGE: PERSIAN
GENRE: COMEDY, DRAMA
RATING: PG
AGES: All

Winner of three main prizes at the 1997 Montreal World Film Festival (including the audience award for most popular feature), this charming film follows the adventures of eight-year-old Ali as he first attempts to recover, then win, a pair of shoes for his younger sister Zahra. Majid Majidi’s third feature deploys the standard, but effective narrative device of putting plucky yet vulnerable children on a quest more urgent than their years warrant.