Mohsen Makhmalbaf
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mohsen Makhmalbaf, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Close-Up
as SelfThis fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on...
Movie page
A Moment of Innocence
as The DirectorA semi-autobiographical account of Makhmalbaf's experience as a teenager when, as a 17-year-old,...
Movie page
Salaam Cinema
as HimselfMakhmalbaf puts an advertisement in the papers calling for an open casting for his next movie....
Movie page
Plankton Salesmen
as Self (archive footage)A nostalgic look at the birth and death of arthouse film distribution in the early 2000s in...
Movie page
Cinema Cinema
as HimselfThis is a film about the making of Salaam Cinema by Mohsen Makhmalbaf in Tehran and it’s...
Movie page
Tales of an Island
as uncreditedAn anthology directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Testing Democracy) and Dariush Mehrjui (Dear Cousin...
Movie page
Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait
as SelfDirector Mohsen Makhmalbaf claims to have never seen a movie before making his first film....
Movie page
Simin, Resident of a Wandering Island
as HimselfSimin Daneshvar was an Iranian pioneering novelist who lived nearly for a century and under 3...
Movie page
Talking with Rivers
as himselfTalking with Rivers is a conversation between Iran and Afghanistan, two neighbouring countries...
Movie page
The Gardener
as uncreditedAn Iranian filmmaker and his son travel to Haifa, Israel to investigate a religion that...
Movie page
Iran: A Cinematographic Revolution
as HimselfToday Iranian cinema is one of the most highly regarded national cinemas in the world, regularly...
Movie page
Flash-Forward
as SelfA group of friends embark on a magical journey through amazing nature to meet a poet who has...
Movie page
Jiseok
as SelfOn May 18, 2017, the Busan International Film Festival’s Program Director Kim Jiseok died...
Movie page
How Samira Made 'Blackboards'
as uncreditedThe film and camera of Maysam Mkhamlbaf, Samira's brother follows her like an invisible eye....
Movie page
Joy of Madness
as HimselfDocumentary showing the backstage of production of Samira Makhmalbaf's film Panj É Asr(At Five...
Movie page