Mohsen Makhmalbaf Movies

This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the...

An elderly couple go about their routine of cleaning their gabbeh, while bickering gently with each other. Magically, a young woman appears, helping...

Filmmakers from all over the world provide short films – each of which is eleven minutes, nine seconds, and one frame of film in length –...

After the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the restriction of women in public life, a preteen girl is forced to masquerade as a boy in order to...

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...

After an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she takes a perilous journey through Afghanistan to...

A semi-autobiographical account of Makhmalbaf's experience as a teenager when, as a 17-year-old, he stabbed a policeman at a protest rally. Two...

Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during...

In the midst of a mid-life crisis Jan, a 40 year old dancing teacher, decides to instigate a revolution against himself. His first act is to summon...

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...

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...

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...

Tracing the history and influence of Iranian cinema and its filmmakers.

The President is the story of a dictator of an imaginary country in the Caucasus, who is forced to escape following a coup d’état, and...

Short film from omnibus 'Beautiful 2015,' commissioned for the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society.

A girl reaches the age of nine and is supposed to act as a grown woman according to her family. A girl participates in a bike race against the will...

A film about an anthropologist and his daughter during three periods: before, during, and after the Iranian Revolution. The daughter works in the...

This is a film about the making of Salaam Cinema by Mohsen Makhmalbaf in Tehran and it’s eventual screening in Cannes Film Festival. Viewers...

A nostalgic look at the birth and death of arthouse film distribution in the early 2000s in Russia. The story of the Cinema Without Borders company...

The movie consists of three episodes that explore the lives of poor and desperate in Iran. In episode one, a very poor couple with many crippled...