Mohsen Makhmalbaf Movies

Director Mohsen Makhmalbaf claims to have never seen a movie before making his first film. Doubtful as it sounds, this boast matches perfectly with...

A rural Iranian school is conducted in a tent. A man, apparently a school inspector, visits the class and asks the students to answer several...

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...

Les Vanarrates tells the story of those old men and women who dwell alone in cold relationships and die in the summer heat of Paris.

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...

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

Hossain Sabzian and some of his associates discuss his character, his life-long obsession with cinema and his attitude towards the film he starred...

The silence of this sleepy little town is soon disturbed when the residents begin to receive threatening phone calls. No one knows who is making...

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...

Makhmalbaf puts an advertisement in the papers calling for an open casting for his next movie. However when hundreds of people show up, he decides to...

The QUARTERS is a film project that brings together four renowned directors from across the globe – Todd Solondz (Happiness, Welcome to the...

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...

Today Iranian cinema is one of the most highly regarded national cinemas in the world, regularly winning festival awards and critical acclaim for...

A group of friends embark on a magical journey through amazing nature to meet a poet who has spent a lifetime in prison for his poems. It’s a...

A girl believing in God marries an atheist, who is consumed by doubt. They decide to spend their honeymoon in India...

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...

Three episodes, all with relatively similar plots about a love triangle between a woman and two men.

An Iranian filmmaker and his son travel to Haifa, Israel to investigate a religion that originated a hundred and seventy years ago. Youth from...

Talking with Rivers is a conversation between Iran and Afghanistan, two neighbouring countries that used to be one land. The two countries are now...

To examine the deteriorating relations between Palestine and Israel following the Hamas attack on October 7, the director walks into the heart of...