Screenplay: Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Direction Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Plot 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 make a movie about...

Direction Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Cast Mirhadi Tayebi · Ali Bakshi · Ammar Tafti · Maryam Mohamadamini

Plot The film is a semi-autobiographical account of Makmahlbaf's experience as a teenager when, as a seventeen-year-old, he stabbed a policeman at a protest rally and was jailed. Two decades later,...

Direction Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Plot Documentary showing the life of children of the Afghan villages bordering Iran, and how their life and culture were affected by Taliban regime.

Direction Samira Makhmalbaf

Cast Massumeh Naderi · Zahra Naderi · Ghorbanali Naderi · Zahra Saghrisaz

Plot 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.

Direction Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Cast Nelofer Pazira · Hassan Tantaï · Sadou Teymouri · Hayatalah Hakimi

Plot Nafas is a reporter who was born in Afghanistan, but fled with her family to Canada when she was a child. However, her sister wasn't so lucky; she lost her...

Direction Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Cast Moharram Zaynalzadeh · Esmail Soltanian · Mohammad Reza Maleki · Firouz Kiani

Plot 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....

Direction Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Cast Shaghayeh Djodat · Hossein Moharami · Roghieh Moharami · Abbas Sayahi

Plot When an old couple washes their gabbeh - a type of Persian rug - a young woman magically appears and tells them her life story.

Direction Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Cast Ebrahim Abadi · Mahmud Bigham · Roya Nonahali · Mohsen Zaehtab

Plot After Partial recovery from the impact of explosion waves, Haji a young combatant leaves hospital and advised by doctors to get married for perfect recuperation. His fiancée’s father is a...

Direction Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Cast Misha Gomiashvili · Dachi Orvelashvili · Guja Burduli · Ia Sukhitashvili

Plot A dictator's final days in a country taken over by revolutionists. Great Iranian director Moshen Makhmalbaf filmed this provocative and disquieting parable about a deposed president.

Direction Marzieh Makhmalbaf

Cast Fatemeh Cherag Akhar · Hassan Nebhan · Shahr Banou Sisizadeh · Ameneh Passand

Plot This is the story of women at three stages of life in Iran. The first part centers on a young girl on her ninth birthday who is told that she...

Direction Samira Makhmalbaf

Cast Saeid Mohammadi · Bahman Ghobadi · Mohammad Karim Rahmati · Behnaz Jaffari

Direction Babak Payami

Cast Nassim Abdi · Cyrus Abidi · Youssef Habashi · Farrokh Shojaii

Direction Samira Makhmalbaf

Cast Agheleh Rezaie · Abdolgani Yousefrazi · Razi Mohebi

Plot Nogreh is a young Afghani woman living with her father and her sister-in-law, Leylomah, whose husband, Akhtar, is missing. Beyond the issue of Akhtar, Leylomah is most concerned with how...

Direction Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Cast Tahmineh Normatova · Nadereh Abdelahyeva · Golsibi Ziadolahyeva · Hakem Gasem

Plot Everyday, 10-year old Khorsid takes the bus to his work at an instrument maker's shop and everyday something unexpected happens.

Direction Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Cast Akbar Abdi · Morteza Ahmadi · Dariush Arjmand · Ezzatolah Entezami

Direction Samira Makhmalbaf

Cast Haron Ahad · Gol-Ghotai · Ziya Mirza Mohamad · Khojeh Nader

Plot In exchange for a dollar a day, a poor boy is hired to carry a wealthier lame boy around on his back like a horse and take him to and...

Direction Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Cast Maysam Makhmalbaf · Mohsen Makhmalbaf · Ririva Eona Mabi · Paula Asadi

Plot An Iranian film maker and his son travel to Israel to investigate a world religion with around 7 million followers, which originated in Iran about a hundred and seventy years...

Direction Aktan Arym Kubat

Cast Natalya Arinbasarova · Olga Landina · Mikhail Zhigalov · Zhan Baizhanbayev

Direction Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Cast Farajollah Salahshoor · Mohammad Kasebi · Behzad Behzadpour · Mohammad Alidoost

Plot Lotfali-Khan, a bank employee, faints. When they're going to bury him, they find out that he's still alive. This accident makes Lotfali-Khan looking for forgiveness.

Direction Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Cast Mohammad Kasebi · Majid Majidi · Esmat Makhmalbaf · Zohreh Sarmadi

Plot Valeh is an irregular troop communist. His wife seeks a life and she is against the dangerous activities of her husband. When Vale takes his wife to the hospital for...