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Samira Makhmalbaf

Director | Writer | Producer

Born in Tehran, Samira is the daughter of director Mohsen Makhmalbaf. She got her first taste of the cinema when she was eight, playing a cameo role as a little girl in her father's film The Cyclist. After leaving school at 15 because she found the teachers incompetent, she began learning to make films... See full bio »

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2008 Two-Legged Horse
 
2003 At Five in the Afternoon
 
2002 September 11 (segment "God, Construction and Destruction")
 
2000 Blackboards
 
1998 The Apple
 
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2003 At Five in the Afternoon (screenplay)
 
2002 September 11 (segment "Iran")
 
2000 Blackboards
 
1998 The Apple (as Samireh Makhmalbaf)
 
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2008 Two-Legged Horse (producer)
 
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2002 September 11 (camera operator - segment Iran)
 
1998 The Silence (assistant director)
 
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1987 The Cyclist
 
Show ShowSelf (14 titles)
2011 The Story of Film: An Odyssey (TV series documentary)
Herself / Herself - Interviewee
– Episode #1.13 (2011) … Herself - Interviewee
– Episode #1.8 (2011) … Herself
 
2010 Sodankylä ikuisesti (TV series documentary)
Herself
– Valon draama (2010) … Herself
 
2009 Ceremonia de clausura - 57º festival internacional de cine de San Sebastián (TV movie)
Herself - Presenter: Special Jury Award
 
2009 Premio Donostia a Ian McKellen (TV movie)
Herself - Audience Member
 
2009 Ceremonia de inauguración - 57º festival internacional de cine de San Sebastián (TV movie)
Herself
 
2008-2009 Cinema 3 (TV series)
Herself
– Episode dated 30 May 2009 (2009) … Herself
– Episode dated 27 September 2008 (2008) … Herself
 
2008 Ceremonia de clausura - 56º festival internacional de cine de San Sebastián (TV movie)
Herself
 
2008 Resumen - 56º festival internacional de cine de San Sebastián (TV movie)
Herself
 
2006 Salam Cinema: Die iranische Familie Makhmalbaf und ihre Filme (TV documentary)
Herself
 
2005 Cinema Iran (TV documentary)
Herself
 
2003 Joy of Madness (documentary)
Herself
 
2000 How Samira Made the Blackboards (documentary)
Herself
 
1998 Homo cinematographicus (TV documentary)
Herself (réalisatrice)
 
1996 Stardust Stricken - Mohsen Makhmalbaf: A Portrait (documentary)
Herself
 
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Personal Details

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Makhmalbaf Film House | See more »

Alternate Names:

Samireh Makhmalbaf
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Personal Quote:

After my film "The Apple" many people questioned me about Iran. They wondered if Iran was really a country where thirteen-year-old girls could be locked up for eleven years and where an eighteen-year-old girl could have her first film at Cannes. I think Iranian women are like freshwater springs: the more pressure applied, the more force they show once they are freed. See more »

Trivia:

Daughter of Mohsen Makhmalbaf See more »

Star Sign:

Aquarius