As a secular and religious country, Iran has always been subject to strict religious and governmental restrictions on the selection of film themes. Since the 1970s, a group of young Iranian filmmakers have been exploring groundbreaking video narratives, focusing on children and recounting the social realities and customs of the country from their point of view. Since then, child-oriented filmmaking has gradually become a feature and strength of the Iranian film industry. In this paper, we will take Children of Heaven directed by Majid Majidi as a case study to analyse the uniqueness of children's film narratives and draw on the successful experience of Iranian children's cinema to provide new perspectives and ideas for the development of children's cinema in China.

Yingda Shang. A Study of Video Narratives in Iranian Children's Cinema. Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences (2024) Vol. 7, Issue 5: 155-159. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJHSS.2024.070524.

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