Samira Makhmalbaf

DIRECTOR, WRITER, ACTRESS

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Samira Makhmalbaf FilmmakerBorn on February 15,1980 in Tehran. At the age of eight, she played in "The Cyclist" directed by her father, Mohsen Makhmalbaf the celebrated Iranian filmmaker.At the age of 17, she directed her first feature titled "The Apple" and She went on to become the youngest director in the world participating in the official section of the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. She was praised on different occasions by the legendary Jean-Luc Godard for her film. The Apple was invited to more than 100 international film festivals in a period of two years, while going to the screen in more than 30 countries.In 1999, Samira made her second feature film titled "Blackboards" in Kurdistan of Iran, and for the second time was selected by the Cannes Film Festival to compete in the official section in 2000. She was granted the Special Jury Award. The Blackboards received many international awards including the "Federico Fellini Honor Award" from UNESCO and "Francois Truffaut Award" from Italy. The film was widely released across the world and more than two hundred thousand people watched the film in France alone.Samira alongside other prominent director like Ken Loach, Shohei Imamura, Youssef Chahine, Sean Penn.... made one of the eleven episodes of the film "September 11". The film was premiered at Venice International Film Festival in 2002.The third feature by Samira Makhmalbaf titled "At Five in the Afternoon", the first feature film shot in Afghanistan post Taliban. The film was selected for the competition section of Cannes Film Festival in 2003, receiving the Jury's Special Award for the second time. In 2004, she was selected as one of forty best directors of the world by Guardian newspaper.Samira Makhmalbaf shot her fourth feature film in Afghanistan titled Two-Legged Horse in 2007, receiving the Grand Jury Awardof San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain.Samira Makhmalbaf has also participated as jury member in reputable film festivals such as Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Locarno, Moscow, Montreal... - IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous

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Streaming Availability

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Releases by Year

Samira Makhmalbaf on average has worked on 1 movies per year from 1989 to 2014. See the full graphs of the number of Samira Makhmalbaf movies released per year from 1989 till 2014.

Top Genres

Samira Makhmalbaf works mostly in Drama Genre followed by Documentary Genre flixes. 50% of Samira Makhmalbaf movies are Drama Genre movies. See Top Genres that Samira Makhmalbaf worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Samira Makhmalbaf has worked on is 7.1.

7.1 / 10

Samira Makhmalbaf's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Documentary,History
The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011)

A comprehensive history of the medium and art of motion pictures.

8.4/1060 min

Available in 9 platform(s).

Drama
The Apple (1998)

After twelve years of imprisonment by their own parents, two sisters are finally released by social workers to face the outside world for the first time.

7.3/1086 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

Drama
The Cyclist (1989)

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 enough. A friend connects Nasim to a two-bit...

7.2/1082 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Drama
At Five in the Afternoon (2003)

In a post-Taliban Afghanistan a young woman (Agheleh Rezaie) attends school against her conservative father's will, hoping to learn more about democracy to fulfill her dream of being the country's next president.

6.8/10105 min

Available in 1 platform(s).