Children of Heaven

Synopsis

When nine-year-old Ali accidentally loses his little sister Zahra's newly mended pink shoes at a vegetable market, the impoverished siblings agree to keep the loss a secret from their struggling parents, secretly sharing Ali's worn sneakers across morning and afternoon school shifts, running breathlessly through the alleys of south Tehran until Ali enters a citywide cross-country footrace desperately aiming for third place to win the prize of a new pair of sneakers. Majid Majidi's Academy Award-nominated humanist classic.