Samira Makhmalbaf Movies
- 2002
11’09”01—September 11
11’09”01—September 116.52002HD
Filmmakers from all over the world provide short films – each of which is eleven minutes, nine seconds, and one frame of film in length –...
- 2000
Blackboards
Blackboards6.62000HD
Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during...
- 1998
The Silence
The Silence6.41998HD
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...
- 1998
The Apple
The Apple6.31998HD
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...
- 1998
Homo Cinematographicus
Homo Cinematographicus01998HD
Homo Cinematographicus is a human species whose unit of measurement and point of reference is the cinema and its derivative, television. Filmed at...
- 2004
Joy of Madness
Joy of Madness5.82004HD
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...
- 1989
The Cyclist
The Cyclist6.61989HD
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...
- 2003
At Five in the Afternoon
At Five in the Afternoon6.42003HD
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...
- 2002
Afghan Alphabet
Afghan Alphabet6.2142002HD
Documentary showing the life of children of the Afghan villages bordering Iran, and how their life and culture were affected by Taliban regime.
- 2009
Two-Legged Horse
Two-Legged Horse5.62009HD
A wealthy boy hires a poor child to carry him around like a horse.
- 1996
Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait
Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait01996HD
Director Mohsen Makhmalbaf claims to have never seen a movie before making his first film. Doubtful as it sounds, this boast matches perfectly with...
- 1993
The Actor
The Actor5.31993HD
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...
- 2005
Cinema Iran
Cinema Iran5.52005HD
Tracing the history and influence of Iranian cinema and its filmmakers.
- 2000
How Samira Made 'Blackboards'
How Samira Made 'Blackboards'02000HD
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...
- 2014
Daddy's School
Daddy's School02014HD
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...
- 2002
Iran
Iran02002HD
Iranian Samira Makhmalbaf short for 11′09″01 September 11 The news of the September 11, 2001 attacks reaches an Afghan refugee camp,...