Name
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1957-05-29 (69 years old)
Place of Birth
Tehran, Iran
Biography
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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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Known For
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Haji is severely traumatized by the war with Iraq. Back from the front, he's unable to ada...
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A semi-autobiographical account of an incident in Makhmalbaf's life when, as a 17-year-old...
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Khorshid, a blind child growing up in Tajikistan, is constantly distracted by music and so...
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In the midst of a mid-life crisis Jan, a 40 year old dancing teacher, decides to instigate...
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A girl reaches the age of nine and is supposed to act as a grown woman according to her fa...
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Eleven directors from eleven countries each contribute an eleven-minute short reflecting o...
- 1990 Close-Up as Self
- 2000 How Samira Made 'Blackboards'
- 2006 Iran: A Cinematographic Revolution as Himself
- 2023 Talking with Rivers as himself
- 2022 Jiseok as Self
- 1996 Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait as Self
- 2002 Afghan Alphabet as Himself
- Soon Flash-Forward as Self
- 2014 Daddy's School as Mohsen Makhmalbaf
- 1997 A Moment of Innocence as The Director
- 2013 Simin, Resident of a Wandering Island as Himself
- 1995 Salaam Cinema as Himself
- 2004 Joy of Madness as Himself
- 2000 Tales of an Island
- 2012 The Gardener
- 2005 Cinema Iran as Self
- 1997 Cinema Cinema as Himself
- 1996 Opening Day of Close-Up as Himself (archive footage)
- 1996 Close-Up Long Shot as Self (archive footage)
- 2017 Plankton Salesmen as Self (archive footage)
- 2012 Encontros e Dissonâncias
- 2022 1979 - The Year Of The Islamist Revolution ( 1 episode ) as Self
