Movies: Samira Makhmalbaf
- 2002
11'09''01 - September 11 (2002)
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Filmmakers from all over the world provide short films – each of which is eleven minutes, nine seconds, and one frame of film in length – that offer differing perspectives on the 9/11 terrorist attacks....
- 2003
At Five in the Afternoon (2003)
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Nogreh is a young Afghani woman living with her father and her sister-in-law, Leylomah, whose husband, Akhtar, is missing. Beyond the issue of Akhtar, Leylomah is most concerned with how to feed her baby. She cannot provide milk for her baby as her o...
- 1998
The Apple (1998)
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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....
- 1998
The Silence (1998)
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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...
- 2000
Blackboards (2000)
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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. Said falls in with a group of old men looking for their bombed-out village; he offer...
- 1989
The Cyclist (1989)
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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. A friend connects Nasim to a two-bit promoter who sells tickets to watch Nasim ride a bicycle con...
- 1996
Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait (1996)
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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. Stardust Stricken -- Mohsen Makhmalbaf: A Portrait documents the ...
- 2005
Cinema Iran (2005)
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Tracing the history and influence of Iranian cinema and its filmmakers....
- 2000
How Samira Made 'Blackboards' (2000)
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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 fat...
- 1993
The Actor (1993)
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An Iranian actor named Akbar is trying to become a serious actor instead of the clown everyone considers him to be. However financial problems force him to abandon his dream of being an artistic actor. He also has to deal with his family problems and...
- 2009
Two-Legged Horse (2009)
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A wealthy boy hires a poor child to carry him around like a horse....
- 2002
Afghan Alphabet (2002)
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Documentary showing the life of children of the Afghan villages bordering Iran, and how their life and culture were affected by Taliban regime....
- 2004
Joy of Madness (2004)
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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. Everything was recorded with a small digital camera by Samira's 14-year-old sister Hana....
- 2014
Daddy's School (2014)
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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 ...
- 2002
Iran (2002)
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Iranian Samira Makhmalbaf short for 11′09″01 September 11 The news of the September 11, 2001 attacks reaches an Afghan refugee camp, where bricks are produced to build new shelters, in view of the attacks promised by the United States. Here a young ...