Children of Heaven

Children of heaven is an Iran film and Majid Majidi was the director for this film.This film is about a family in the Iranian city.There are five members of the family and live happily although they are poor.Ali(Mir Farrokh Hashemian),a 9-year old boy and Zahra(Bahare Seddigi), a 7 year-old girl.Theirs father's name is Karim(Amir Naji) who serves tea at his company while theirs mother is a housewife.Now, she is sick due of giving birth to her new child and doctor forbifen her to do any works except rest until she is healthy.



This film begin when Ali bring his sister's pink shoes to a cobbler for repairs because it was torn.After it was repaired,he goes to the bakery to pick up a bundle of flatbread and stop by at fruits and vegetables shop to buy potatoes.So he put the flatbread and repaired shoes outside the shop.But when he go outside,the repaired shoes outside was not there.It was taken by a ragmuffin salvage pedller who misunderstood that it was the shoopkeeper's.Ali's life change from that moment.He searches the shoes all the way back to his home but he cannot find it anywhere.When he arrives home,his sister,Zahra ask about her shoes hut Ali tell everything about the lost shoes and ask Zahra do not tell theirs parents about the it.Then he go out again to find the shoes but it is hopeless.

At night,Zahra ask Ali how will she go to the school without shoes tomorrow and Ali told Zahra to wear slippers but Zahra do not want because her teacher will scold her if she wears slippers to school.Then Ali find a solution and he ask Zahra to wear his shoes because Ali start his school in the afternoon.So they can change the shoes in the middle way.Zahra rush back to home to change the shoes with his brother.Plus,because of that,Ali always late for his first class and scolded by the
headmaster.

On Friday,Karim ask Ali to join him to go to the city to find an extra money for the family and luckily they are accepted to do garden at one of the big house.After Karim finished all his work,he got payment from the landlord and Karim was very gratefull.They going home with a big smile and Karim start daydreaming to buy goods for his family.Ali ask his father to buy new shoes for Zahra because her shoes was torn and his father promise to buy new shoes for both of them.

At school,there are along distance running competition at his school.At first,Ali was not interested with the competition and after he saw the thir prizes which is a pair of sneakers,he quickly beg his teacher to register his name for the competition an he was accepted.He told the good news to Zahra and promise her that he will win the third place and give the sneakers to Zahra.Zahra was very happy.




The competition day arrived and there were a lot of students participate in the competition but Ali was not afraid of loosing.He only want to win for the third place.The race begin.Ali run as fast as he can from the beginning because he needs to defeat other student and only lose to two students.So he try his best from the beginning and lastly,he won the first place.He was very sad because he only want the pairs of sneaker for his sister.Ali go home wit sour face and his legs was badly ijured.The story end here when Ali put his legs in a pond in fornt of his house without knowing his father just buy new shoes for bot of them.