Children of the Sun 2020

The famous Iranian director Majid Majidi has been shortlisted for the first time in the main competition of the Venice Film Festival. The 12-year-old boy Ali and his three friends often have to do some extraordinary things due to livelihood and family reasons. In order to find the legendary underground treasure house, Ali and his friends infiltrated and lurked in the Sun School, a social welfare institution for street children. There, they were noticed for the first time, and the door to the world seemed to open again. Where there is sun, there must be hope? Majidi uses extremely smooth, skillful and caring brushstrokes to depict a new look of contemporary Iranian street children, neither humble nor arrogant, and highly contagious.