Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Understanding “beauty” for 2015… From Beijing, Huang Jianxin wonders if it’s nobler to sleep or not to sleep in Insomniac ...

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 begins a ...

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

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 ...

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

After an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she takes a perilous journey through Afghanistan ...

Ghesse Haye Kish was originally produced as a six-episode omnibus film with finances from investors on the Island of Kish in the Persian Gulf, ...

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 ...

Khorshid, a blind child growing up in Tajikistan, is constantly distracted by music and sounds. This frequently causes him to be late to his job ...

A semi-autobiographical account of Makhmalbaf’s experience as a teenager when, as a 17-year-old, he stabbed a policeman at a protest rally. ...

An elderly couple go about their routine of cleaning their gabbeh, while bickering gently with each other. Magically, a young woman appears, ...

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

An Iranian actor named Akbar is trying to become a serious actor instead of the clown everyone considers him to be. However financial problems ...

The film follows a character known as The Cinematographer, who is looking for someone called Atieh (Future). As he calls out to her, he is ...

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

A film about an anthropologist and his daughter during three periods: before, during, and after the Iranian Revolution. The daughter works in the ...

Haji is severely traumatized by the war with Iraq. Back from the front, he’s unable to adapt to civilian life. Despite family opposition, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Valeh, a member of a leftist organization, is arrested by the SAVAK and sentenced to death. In prison, he reconsiders his relationships with ...

Iman wants to go and fight in the Iran-Iraq War, but he has some problems that he has to solve first. The problems consist of his daughter’s ...

Five men escape to a remote island in order to fight the Devil. Four of them give into the temptations provided by the Devil, and die. However ...

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