Name
Samira Makhmalbaf
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1980-02-15 (46 years old)
Place of Birth
Tehran, Iran
Biography
Samira Makhmalbaf (born February 15, 1980) is an internationally acclaimed Iranian filmmaker and script writer. She is the daughter of Mohsen Makhmalbaf, the film director and writer. She is considered to be one of the most influential directors as part of the Iranian New Wave.
Known For
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Khorshid, a blind child growing up in Tajikistan, is constantly distracted by music and so...
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Eleven directors from eleven countries each contribute an eleven-minute short reflecting o...
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A wealthy boy hires a poor child to carry him around like a horse....
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The wife of Nasim, an Afghan immigrant in Iran, is gravely ill. He needs money to pay for ...
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Documentary showing the life of children of the Afghan villages bordering Iran, and how th...
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Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the ...
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Nogreh is a young Afghan woman living with her father and her sister-in-law, Leylomah, who...
- 2000 How Samira Made 'Blackboards'
- 1996 Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait as Self
- 2014 Daddy's School as Samira Makhmalbaf
- 2004 Joy of Madness as Herself
- 1989 The Cyclist
- 1993 The Actor
- 2005 Cinema Iran as Self
- 1998 Homo Cinematographicus as Self
- 2011 The Story of Film: An Odyssey ( 2 episodes ) as Self
