Children of Heaven

Children of Heaven Persian , Bachehaye Aseman is a 1997 Iranian family drama film written and directed by Majid Majidi. It deals with a brother and sister and their adventures over a lost pair of shoes. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1998.

Alis family lives in a poor South Tehran neighbourhood, and are having financial trouble, so he fears to tell his parents about the mishap. The landlord argues with Alis mother Fereshte Sarabandi because she is five months behind on the rent, and the grocer has not been paid in a while either. Ali tells Zahra about the shoes and begs her not to tell their mother she agrees. That night, Alis father Reza Naji scolds him for not helping his ill mother when she asked. While the siblings were doing their homework, they passed notes to each other discussing what to do. They devise a scheme to share Alis Converse sneakers Zahra will wear them to school in the morning and return them to Ali at midday so he can attend afternoon classes. Ali does well on a test and his teacher Dariush Mokhtari awards him a goldcolored pen with the others in his class that got good grades he gives it to Zahra to partially make up for losing her shoes. However, the uncomfortable arrangement between him and his sister leads to Ali being late three times in a row, no matter how hard he runs the first time the principal ignores him, the second time he gives him a warning, the third time he tells Ali to leave and return with his father who is at work trying to make money. Alis teacher Dariush Mokhtari noticing Alis tears persuades the principal that Ali is at the top of his class and to give the boy one more chance and let him back into class.One day, Zahra notices her missing pink shoes on another student, Royas Nafise JafarMohammadi, feet. After class, Zahra secretly follows Roya home. She later brings Ali with her for a confrontation, but from hiding, they discover that Royas father MohammedHasan Hosseinian, the garbageman, is blind, so they decide to leave. When Roya does well in her studies, her father buys her new blue shoes and throws away Zahras. Zahra is dismayed when she finds out from her new friend. ........

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