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Jun 28, 2024 · Mohsen Makhmalbaf started his filmmaking career as a “committed Islamist” director, with fundamentalist views of religion. He was known as a fanatic Muslim who disdained secular poetic films made by Iranian New Wave filmmakers such as Daryush Merjui.
Jun 19, 2024 · The Makhmalbaf Film School was established in 1996 by post-revolutionary Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf (b. 1957), a key figure of the 1980s and early 1990s and a central inspiration for Abbas Kiarostami’s Close-Up (1990).
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Jun 13, 2024 · By far her most upsetting work, this film observes the sadistic relationship between two boys affected by the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan. The script was penned by her well-regarded father, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, though it is a mistake to simply regard Samira Makhmalbaf as a mere product of her father’s influence.
Jun 13, 2024 · Ruzi keh Zan Shodam (The Day I Became a Woman, Marzieh Meshkiny, 2000) is Marzieh Meshkiny’s debut film, produced by the Makhmalbaf Film House which was founded in 1996 by renowned Iranian film director Mohsen Makhmalbaf, also Meshkiny’s husband.
Jun 19, 2024 · At the age of 17 in pre-revolutionary Iran Makhmalbaf was imprisoned for stabbing a policeman. Twenty years later he sets out to restage the events with the collaboration of his original antagonist.
- Mohsen Makhmalbaf
- June 19, 2024
Jun 19, 2024 · Wed 19 Jun 2024. See below for additional related events. After an overwhelming response to an open audition for a film celebrating cinema’s 100th anniversary, Makhmalbaf decides to make a movie about the process. In some ways a playful, candid response to the type of metafictional “documentary” popularised by Kiarostami’s ...
Jun 13, 2024 · To celebrate Nowruz, the Persian New Year, and the arrival of spring, Cinema Tehran presents Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s banned film ‘Gabbeh’. When an old couple washes their gabbeh – a type of Persian rug – a young woman magically appears and tells them her life story.
