For another year, one of Majid Majidi's Films is representing Iran in Academy Awards of this year. The Song of Sparrows is representing Iran for the Best Foreign Language Films category. After a critical misfire with the moralistic melodrama The Weeping Willow, Iran's only Oscar-nominated director, Majid Majidi (Children of Heaven), returns to the dramatic territory he effectively mined in earlier works with The Song of Sparrows.

Using amateur actors, this deeply humanistic story set among his society's underprivileged explores how capitalism and technology corrupt man, making him lose spiritual purity and all-important connections to family, friends and nature.

Source: Payvand, NY Times, Variety