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Apr 1, 2002 · Mohsen Makhmalbaf. Still from Kandahar (2001). Cannes, May 2001. With humanitarian rather than political aims, Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s Kandahar (2001) was intended to focus on the plight of women in Afghanistan under a brutal oppressive regime and on the pervasive misery caused by civil strife and war between the Soviets and the US-backed Mujehadeen.
Feb 8, 2022 · Mohsen Makhmalbaf, the Iranian auteur who is a leading voice in art house film, says independent cinema is dying in the era of streaming video.. Makhmalbaf, director of Cannes prize winner ...
Afghan Alphabet. Synopsis: Mohsen Makhmalbaf tracks the children who do not attend school in the border villages between Iran and Afghanistan with his digital camera and questions why they are not being educated. He finds girls studying in UNICEF classes in one region. One of the girls is not willing to come out of her burqa despite the fact ...
Jul 14, 2020 · Makhmalbaf’s film in the anthology “Tales From an Island,” “Testing Democracy” is to Makhmalbaf what “The Idiots” is to Lars von Trier. Makhmalbaf takes advantage of the radical possibilities that digital cinema can provide to an auteur. The film begins with camcorder footage of Makhmalbaf struggling to light and direct a scene.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf is the winner of more than 30 prominent international awards including the Legion d’honneur Medallion form France as well as The Best Asian Filmmaker of the world award from Pusan International Film Festival. He became the Dean of the Asian Film Academy in 2007. All members of his family are filmmakers.
Synopsis: Mohsen Makhmalbaf whom is busy making the movie “The Door” on an island encounters many problems for making the movie with a 35 mm camera. The lack of facilities, censorship control on cinema equipment and the difficulty of working with non-professional and local...
Hana and Mohsen Makhmalbaf with two new films at Busan Film Festival 2023 Outlook: "Hope Is Alive In Iran, Says Filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf" Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s Marghe and Her Mother at Tiburon International Film Festival 2020
