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Jun 28, 2024 · Mohsen Makhmalbaf started his filmmaking career as a “committed Islamist” director, with fundamentalist views of religion. He was known as a fanatic Muslim who disdained secular poetic films made by Iranian New Wave filmmakers such as Daryush Merjui.
6 days ago · Kandahar is a 2006 war film directed by Afghani-American director, Mohsen Makhmalbaf. The film is based on the true story of Nelofer Pazira, a CIA officer who was captured and held hostage by the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001. Pazira was held captive for nearly five months before she was rescued by U.S. forces.
Jun 19, 2024 · The Makhmalbaf Film School was established in 1996 by post-revolutionary Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf (b. 1957), a key figure of the 1980s and early 1990s and a central inspiration for Abbas Kiarostami’s Close-Up(1990).
6 days ago · Based on a bizarre real-life incident, “ Close-Up ” recounts the strange case of Hossain Sabzian (playing himself), who impersonated the famous Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf. Sabzian, a cinephile and Makhmalbaf devotee, convinced the well-to-do Ahankhah family that he was the renowned director scouting locations for his next film.
Jun 19, 2024 · At the age of 17 in pre-revolutionary Iran Makhmalbaf was imprisoned for stabbing a policeman. Twenty years later he sets out to restage the events with the collaboration of his original antagonist.
Jun 19, 2024 · Wed 19 Jun 2024. See below for additional related events. After an overwhelming response to an open audition for a film celebrating cinema’s 100th anniversary, Makhmalbaf decides to make a movie about the process. In some ways a playful, candid response to the type of metafictional “documentary” popularised by Kiarostami’s highly ...
Jul 9, 2024 · The name of Mohsen Makhmalbaf is almost synonymous with the dramatic rise of Iranian cinema in the aftermath of the Islamic Revolution, and over the last quarter of a century, his career as filmmaker and writer has reflected the tumultuous history of his homeland and the fate of its neighbours.
