The film is an authorized adaptation of the 1997 Iranian film Children of Heaven which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in the same year.
2002 - Afghanistan: FilmAid brings screenings of The Wizard of Oz and Children of Heaven to street children in Kabul, giving many of them their first ever experience of film, and also of music, both of which had been banned under Taliban rule.
The success of Children of Heaven in many International festivals and its candidacy for the Best Foreign Language Film of academy awards (Oscar) in 1999, was a significant achievement for Kanoon productions.
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They have recently been invited to Doha to participate in The AlJazeera International Documentary Film Festival with AmaZulu:T he Children Of Heaven.
Though it lost to the Italian film Life Is Beautiful by Roberto Benigni, Children of Heaven is the first Iranian film to have been nominated by the Academy.