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Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Mohsen Mäxmälbaf, born May 29, 1957) is an Iranian film director, writer, editor, and producer. During 2007 he was the president of Asian Film Academy.
Makhmalbaf's films have been widely presented in international film festivals in the past ten years. The multi-award-winning director, belongs to the new wave movement of Iranian cinema. Time magazine selected Makhmalbaf's 2001 film, Kandahar, as one of top 100 films of all time. In 2006, he was a member of the Jury at the Venice film festival.
Makhmalbaf left Iran in 2005 shortly after the election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and now lives in Paris. As of June 12, 2009, and following the events of the 2009 Iranian presidential election, Mohsen Makhmalbaf has claimed that he has been appointed the official spokesman of Mir-Hossein Moussavi's campaign abroad.
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19 October 1996
Director Mohsen Makhmalbaf claims to have never seen a movie before making his first film. Doubtful as it sounds, this boast matches perfectly with the controversial artist's personae.
18 May 2006
Today Iranian cinema is one of the most highly regarded national cinemas in the world, regularly winning festival awards and critical acclaim for films which combine remarkable artistry and social relevance.
04 May 2005
Tracing the history and influence of Iranian cinema and its filmmakers.
07 September 2000
The film and camera of Maysam Mkhamlbaf, Samira's brother follows her like an invisible eye. From her first subconscious presence as an actor, when she was one months old and crying in her mothers arms, while acting in a feature movie made by his father up to her first conscious appearance as an 8 year old child actor in the movie Cyclist made by his father in Pakistan.
16 October 2005
A man whose job collecting garbage from the streets. But from this work he becomes aware of the secrets of those houses he collecting garbage from and that lead him to involve in some troubles.
01 February 1992
The film follows a character known as The Cinematographer, who is looking for someone called Atieh (Future).
15 July 2004
Documentary showing the backstage of production of Samira Makhmalbaf's film Panj É Asr(At Five in the Afternoon), in Kabul, after the fall of the Taliban regime.
04 September 2002
An anthology of short films inspired by the events of the September 11 World Trade Center attacks.
01 January 1997
This is a film about the making of Salaam Cinema by Mohsen Makhmalbaf in Tehran and it’s eventual screening in Cannes Film Festival.
01 January 2000
An anthology directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Testing Democracy) and Dariush Mehrjui (Dear Cousin is L)
23 September 2013
At the age of 74, many people retire themselves or go and spend the rest of their life in elderly’s house.
11 November 1998
A rural Iranian school is conducted in a tent. A man, apparently a school inspector, visits the class and asks the students to answer several questions.
09 May 1990
This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves.
29 October 2017
A nostalgic look at the birth and death of arthouse film distribution in Russia in the early 2000s. The story of the company Cinema Without Borders and its two founders, Sam Klebanov and Anton Mazurov.
01 September 2000
Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the Iran-Iraq war.
02 January 1984
Iman wants to go and fight in the Iran-Iraq War, but he has some problems that he has to solve first.
14 April 1995
Makhmalbaf puts an advertisement in the papers calling for an open casting for his next movie. However when hundreds of people show up, he decides to make a movie about the casting and the screen tests of the would-be actors.
06 October 2022
On May 18, 2017, the Busan International Film Festival’s Program Director Kim Jiseok died suddenly and unexpectedly from a heart attack while on a business trip to the Cannes Film Festival.
03 July 2023
Talking with Rivers is a conversation between Iran and Afghanistan, two neighbouring countries that used to be one land.
26 June 1996
An elderly couple go about their routine of cleaning their gabbeh, while bickering gently with each other.
24 March 2004
After the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the restriction of women in public life, a preteen girl is forced to masquerade as a boy in order to find work to support her mother and grandmother.
02 January 1990
In Iran-Iraq's war, a young scout joins the front-line to help his comrades single-handed.
09 April 1997
A semi-autobiographical account of an incident in Makhmalbaf's life when, as a 17-year-old, he stabbed a policeman at a protest rally.
06 September 1998
Khorshid, a blind child growing up in Tajikistan, is constantly distracted by music and sounds. This frequently causes him to be late to his job as an instrument tuner even though he runs the risk of being fired at a time when his family is in danger of being evicted from their house.
31 July 2009
A man enters a bar, sits and observes, not speaking. Gradually, the silent presence of the stranger disturbs the other customers.
27 May 1998
After twelve years of imprisonment by their own parents, two Iranian sisters are finally released by social workers to face the outside world for the first time.
06 March 2002
Documentary showing the life of children of the Afghan villages bordering Iran, and how their life and culture were affected by Taliban regime.
02 February 1987
The movie consists of three episodes that explore the lives of poor and desperate in Iran. In episode one, a very poor couple with many crippled children abandon their newly born baby in hopes that it will have a better future.
20 August 2003
Nogreh is a young Afghani woman living with her father and her sister-in-law, Leylomah, whose husband, Akhtar, is missing.
02 January 1993
An account of the processes used in the treatment of various types of glass and their different uses in a new Iranian factory.
01 February 2019
The story is about an immigrant Iranian news anchor who works for a Persian TV channel in UK. His nude pictures going viral on social media and he is trying to remove them.
09 December 2005
In the midst of a mid-life crisis Jan, a 40 year old dancing teacher, decides to instigate a revolution against himself.
04 September 2001
A female election agent and a gun-toting soldier try to collect votes among the local islanders with mixed success.
30 March 2013
Simin Daneshvar was an Iranian pioneering novelist who lived nearly for a century and under 3 different political regimes.
02 June 1999
Ghesse Haye Kish was originally produced as a six-episode omnibus film with finances from investors on the Island of Kish in the Persian Gulf, which is a free zone belonging to Iran.
21 April 2015
Short film from omnibus 'Beautiful 2015,' commissioned for the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society.
25 March 2015
Understanding "beauty" for 2015... From Beijing, Huang Jianxin wonders if it's nobler to sleep or not to sleep in Insomniac Diary.
10 August 1993
An Iranian actor named Akbar is trying to become a serious actor instead of the clown everyone considers him to be.
01 September 2000
A girl reaches the age of nine and is supposed to act as a grown woman according to her family. A girl participates in a bike race against the will of her husband.
09 February 1996
At his cinema in Rome, the Nuovo Sacher, Nanni Moretti anxiously oversees preparations for the premiere of the film Close-up, by Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami.
01 February 1989
The wife of Nasim, an Afghan immigrant in Iran, is gravely ill. He needs money to pay for her care, but his day labor digging wells does not pay enough.
11 May 2001
After an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she takes a perilous journey through Afghanistan to try to find her.
02 October 2014
It is a story of a unique family in the world; A documentary on how a former political imprisoned revolutionary in a religious closed society like Iran, turned his house in to an open Film School and pave to way for his family to became world class film maker and top International award winners , including Cannes Venice , Berlin, San Sebastian , Locarno and many.
01 February 1986
Valeh, a member of a leftist organization, is arrested by the SAVAK and sentenced to death. In prison, he reconsiders his relationships with members of his political cell, and begins to doubt the validity of the ideas for which he is condemned.
01 February 1991
Three episodes, all with relatively similar plots about a love triangle between a woman and two men.
30 August 2014
The President is the story of a dictator of an imaginary country in the Caucasus, who is forced to escape following a coup d’état, and begins a journey to discover his country in the company of his five-year-old grandson.
01 January 1985
The silence of this sleepy little town is soon disturbed when the residents begin to receive threatening phone calls.
03 October 2024
To examine the deteriorating relations between Palestine and Israel following the Hamas attack on October 7, the director walks into the heart of Jerusalem, a city that has been a holy site for Judaism, Islam, and Christianity for centuries, where tension and hatred have become a daily reality.
17 March 1982
A military commander is about to launch a major war that will result in the destruction of thousands of people.
15 November 1996
Hossain Sabzian and some of his associates discuss his character, his life-long obsession with cinema and his attitude towards the film he starred in, "Close-Up" (1990).
06 May 2009
A wealthy boy hires a poor child to carry him around like a horse.
01 February 1989
Haji is severely traumatized by the war with Iraq. Back from the front, he's unable to adapt to civilian life.
18 March 1992
A rural young man comes to the capital under the pressure of his peers, to acclaim some fortune for f
14 September 2006
A girl believing in God marries an atheist, who is consumed by doubt. They decide to spend their honeymoon in India.
02 January 1983
Lotfali-Khan, a bank employee, faints. When they're going to bury him, they find out that he's still alive.
01 January 1984
Five men escape to a remote island in order to fight the Devil. Four of them give into the temptations provided by the Devil, and die.
15 May 1981
During the time of the Pahlavi Dynasty - the ruling House of Iran - the US President Richard Nixon is about to visit Tehran, but a violent armed opposing group intend to make their mark by planting a bomb in a public office in protest.
04 November 1997
When Hana’s aunt goes to the hospital to have a nose job, grandpa comes to take care of the kids. The kids go play in the alley, but to be on the safe side, grandpa suggest they’d come back home.
01 February 1990
A film about an anthropologist and his daughter during three periods: before, during, and after the Iranian Revolution.
27 September 2019
22-year-old Claudia is a single mother who lives with Marghe, her sixyear-old precocious daughter. When Claudia is kicked out of her house for failing to pay the rent, she leaves Marghe to an old woman next door.
