Iranian director calls Venice premiere ‘like a new life’

VENICE, Italy (AP) — “Sun Children,” a film that has premiered this week at the Venice Film Festival is bringing a spotlight to child laborers and a path forward for its child stars. Majid Majidi says he interviewed thousands of children, many of them laborers, to find the cast for his film, which tells the story of a boy named Ali and his three friends on the streets of Tehran as they try and find hidden treasure. The 14-year-old lead actor did not make the Venice premiere bec