Children of Heaven (1997)
Majidi's 1997 Iranian family drama. A boy and his sister share one pair of shoes between school sessions.
Actor: Amir Farrokh Hashemian
Amir Farrokh Hashemian played Ali in Children of Heaven, a boy who loses his sister’s shoes and enters a race hoping to win third place, because third prize is a pair of shoes. The performance is almost entirely non-professional, which is the Iranian neorealist tradition the film works in.