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Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Persian: محسن مخملباف, Mohsen Makhmalbaaf; born May 29, 1957) is an Iranian film director, writer, film editor, and producer. He has made more than 20 feature films, won some 50 awards and been a juror in more than 15 major film festivals. His award-winning films include Kandahar; his latest documentary is The Gardener and latest feature The President.
Makhmalbaf's films have been widely presented at international film festivals in the past ten years. The director belongs to the new wave movement of Iranian cinema. Time selected Makhmalbaf's 2001 film Kandahar as one of the top 100 films of all time. In 2006, he was a member of the Jury at the Venice Film Festival.
Makhmalbaf left Iran in 2005 shortly after the election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, sixth President of Iran, and has lived in Paris since the events of the 2009 Iranian presidential election.
Makhmalbaf was born in Tehran on May 29, 1957. At the age of 15, he became involved in a militant group fighting against the rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the then Shah of Iran, and at the age of 17 he was imprisoned for stabbing a policeman and sentenced to death. After serving five years of his sentence, he was released in the wake of the Iranian Revolution. He left Iran in 2005.
Actors: Mohsen Makhmalbaf (actor), John C. Reilly (actor), Jennifer Jason Leigh (actress), Claude Gonzalez (producer), Ulu Grosbard (actor), Maani Petgar (director),
Genres: Documentary,Director and Writer: Mohsen Makhmalbaf Subtitles: English - French - Spanish - فارسی Original Title: Bagheban ( باغبان ) Cast: Maysam Makhmalbaf Mohsen Makhmalbaf Ririva Eona Mabi Paula Asadi Guillaume Nyagatare Tjireya Tjitendero Juzgado Ian David Huang Bal Kumari Gurung Synopsis: 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 ago. Youth from all over the world come to Haifa, the center of this religion, to serve. Those who serve in the gardens that surround the holy places develop peace loving attitudes through their interactions with nature. As the father accompanies a gardener from Papua New Guinea, he finds similarities between the teachings of this ...
The Silence (Persian: سکوت) is an Iranian film from 1998. It is directed by the well known Iranian film maker Mohsen Makhmalbaf. The movie is about a little boy who has the onerous task of earning money for his family, but is always enchanted and distracted by music. It all happens in Tajikistan. The movie features a scene with Turkmen dutar music, played by Iranian-Turkmen actor Araz M.Shirmohamadi.
Iranian film-maker Mohsen Makhmalbaf on his relationship with Israel Subscribe to the Guardian HERE: http://bitly.com/UvkFpD Mohsen Makhmalbaf, one of Iran's most famous directors, speaks to the Guardian after returning from a controversial trip to the Jerusalem film festival. The 57-year-old was condemned for the visit in a letter by a group of Iranian intellectuals, a fact he says evidences a 'cancer' in the relationship between Israel and Iran. Makhmalaf describes his reception by Israelis at the festival as 'amazing'
نوشته حاضر اطلاعاتی است که از طریق کارمندان سابق بیت رهبری و وزارت اطلاعات که به خارج از کشور گریخته اند برای من بازگو شده است و من تنظیم متن آن را به عهده داشته ام......محسن مخملباف Secret Life Khamenei (Mohsen Makhmalbaf) Part 1 unlimitedtaste
Título original - Salaam Cinema Genero - Documental Año - 1995 Duración - 75 min. País - Irán Director - Mohsen Makhmalbaf - El director de este documental publicó un anuncio en un periódico de Teherán invitando a la gente a participar en su último proyecto. Miles de personas respondieron a su reclamo y desencadenaron el alarmante aluvión con el que comienza El cine Salaam. Makhmalbaf se dedicó acto seguido a grabar las "audiciones" de muchos de aquellos espontáneos. Las supuestas "pruebas de pantalla" constituyeron el material de una película cargada de tensión en la que el director provoca e intimida con frecuencia a sus aspirantes a actores, instándoles a llorar, ordenándoles que canten o que simulen una muerte melodramática, o sencillamente haciéndoles hablar de sus vidas.
Director: Mohsen MAKHMALBAF Synopsis: The President tells the story of a dictator who comes face to face with the people he previously subjugated. The President and his family rule their land with an iron fist, enjoying lives of luxury and leisure at the expense of their population's misery. When a coup d'état overthrows his brutal rule and the rest of his family flees the country by plane, The President is suddenly left to care for his young grandson and forced to escape. Now the country’s most wanted fugitive with a bounty on his head, The President begins a perilous journey with the boy, criss-crossing the country to reach the sea where a ship waits to bring them to safety. Posing as street musicians and traveling together with the people who suffered for years under the dictatorship, ...
O filme conta a história do Presidente e da sua família, que governaram o país com punho de ferro durante anos, gozando de um estilo de vida luxuoso à custa da miséria do povo. Quando um golpe de estado derruba a ditadura, o Presidente inicia uma perigosa jornada na companhia do seu neto, fingindo ser um músico de rua, rumo a um navio que os levará em direção a um destino seguro. Misturado com o povo, o Presidente perceberá o que inspirou o ódio do povo à sua ditadura. NOS CINEMAS 10 SETEMBRO// Para mais informação siga-nos em facebook.com/lanternadepedrafilmes
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 the casting and the screen tests of the would-be actors.
GABBEH Dir: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1996. 76 min. Iran. In Farsi with English subtitles. Encore screenings in December for Best of 2012! FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7TH – 7:30PM TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18TH – 10PM --- TUESDAY, AUGUST 14 - 7.30PM TUESDAY, AUGUST 28 - 10PM GABBEH is a critically acclaimed masterpiece by prolific iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf, which weaves fiction and documentary to create a colorful dreamworld set in the idyllic mountains of Iran. The film explores the world of nomadic carpet makers while simultaneously telling a story of young love in such a way that mimics the weaving of the gabbeh (carpet) that the story is centered around. Winning best artistic film at the Tokyo Festival among many other awards, Gabbeh is an inspiring window into a part of Iranian culture that is ...
A musico-visual encounter / "The Day I Became a Woman " Marziyeh Meshkini Created . Arden Zahedi-Bogucka & Massod Vadiee Music / Christophe Rezai " Ya Telab Blues " sound kolage and mixage / Soho Music People and Heriknaz Sibirian A Dokumuzik Projekt az kolexion e Londn 2012 London.UK "another wondrous musico-visual adaptation by Arden Zahedi-Bogucka & Massod Vadiee based on Marziyeh Meshkini's "Roozi Ke Zan Shodam/The Day I Became A Woman (2000)--Music: Christphe Rezai " Professor Hamid Dabashi Columbia University ( USA) The Day I Became a Woman Roozi Keh Zan Shodam (Iran) By Deborah Young Variety Magazine Woman on Top A Makhmalbaf Film House production. (International sales: Makhmalbaf Film House.) Produced by Mohsen Makhmalbaf. Directed by Marziyeh Meshkini. Screenplay, Mohsen Mak...
Orwa Nyrabia, the Syrian filmmaker who was abducted on August 23rd, was released by the Syrian government today. He had been taken by Military Security, but was turned over to a civilian court yesterday, which reviewed his case and freed him. Family members say that he is strong and in good spirits. Filmmakers from all over the world had called for his release. They included Martin Scorsese, Annemarie Jacir, Nabil Maleh, Robert DeNiro, and many other prominent actors, directors, producers, and writers . The Directors Guild of America, the Toronto International Film Festival, ArteEast, the Berlin Film Festival, Film Forum and others, released important public statements to bring attention to Orwa's situation. A partial list of those filmmakers is included below, along with a video made by...
Circles - "Teheran" (official music video) Written and produced by Circles http://circleslab.tumblr.com/ http://vimeo.com/circleslab http://twitter.com/Circles_sound http://soundcloud.com/circleslab http://www.youtube.com/user/CirclesLab https://www.facebook.com/pages/Circles/311906765528922 Edited by Manuele di Siro http://www.manueledisiro.com http://vimeo.com/manueledisiro http://www.youtube.com/user/manueledisiro http://twitter.com/tubyMDS https://www.facebook.com/tubymanueledisiro Movies: "Panj é asr - At Five in the Afternoon" by Samira Makhmalbaf (Iran/France 2003) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363303/ "Jodaeiye Nader az Simin - A Separation" by Asghar Farhadi (Iran 2011) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1832382/ "Offside" by Jafar Panahi (Iran 2011) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt049953...
Feb 2013 I Colour I Stereo I 4:13 Inspired by the themes of identity, memory & coming of age as they appeared in the following films: Dharmputra | Yash Raj Chopra A Moment of Innocence | Mohsen Makhmalbaf A Separation | Asghar Farhadi "Moments of Innocence" is a sad reflection on the individuals' inevitable progression away from the "naive" notion that we are taught to believe as children - that bad is bad and good is good. Period. It is a reflection of the sort of shady revamping of that internal moral compass, that we develop as children and begin to erode as adults, in the sense that we will all eventually reach that point where we begin to decide for ourselves where to "draw the line" so to speak in regards to our own moral boundaries. I often wonder what the world would be li...
"Rafto Gozasht " The Little Rio in Kish" Featuring / Niaz Nawab Based on / Roozi Ke Zan Shodam (The Day I Became A Woman) A film by Marzieh Meshkini (2000) Visual adaptation / Massod Vadiee Produced / Arden Zahedi-Bogucka A Dokumuzik Projekts (UK) About Niaz Nawab: Née le 05/05/1985 à Téhéran, dans une famille de musiciens (Yahaghi)Fascinée par le piano et violon classique, elle a commencé à jouer à l’âge de 10 ans au Conservatoire de Musique à Téheran. Elle y obtient en 1999 avec un vif succès un Diplôme de Trinity College London, suite à un concours. Elle fait sa rentrée en 2003 à l’École Normale de Musique de Paris(Alfred Cortot). Disciple de Jean Micault et Pierre Etcheverry pendant quatre ans,elle obtient à l’unanimité du jury un certificat. Elle est rentrée en 2007 au Conservatoire ...
This is the fourth in a series of video essays inspired by a challenge by The Criterion Cast podcast in which I explore films in The Criterion Collection that have influenced my filmmaking style and aesthetic. Abbas Kiarostami's 1990 narrative-documentary hybrid "Nema Ye Nazdik (Close-Up)" was a revelation to me when Criterion released it on DVD and Blu-Ray in 2010 (spine number 519, www.criterion.com/films/1092-close-up). The issues of identity and reality were similar to those I had been exploring in "Icarus of Pittsburgh", "Scenic Highway", and even to some extent, "Fansom the Lizard". But Kiarostami took it one step further by having the actual subjects in the real-life event participate in the re-creation for the film itself - including the impersonated film director, Mohsen Makhmal...
Place de la Bastille (Paris) : 14H00 , dimanche 28 Juin 2009. Ils étaient en grand nombre (10000 personnes) à la marche de solidarité avec le peuple iranien organisée par des démocrates et des citoyens Français (notamment d'origine persane), ce dimanche 28 juin 2009, à 14h00. Appel Signé par : Marjane Satrapi, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Samira Makhmalbaf, Atiq Rahimi, Bernard-Henri Levy, Arash Derambarsh, Dominique Voynet, Nicole Guedj, Karim LAHIDJI, Behi DJANATI ATAÏ, la Mairie de Paris, Les Humains associés, le photographe Reza Deghati,...
BLACKBOARDS Dir. Samira Makhmalbaf, 2000 Iran, 85 min In Persian with English subtitles TUESDAY, AUGUST 14 - 10PM TUESDAY, AUGUST 28 - 7:30PM Blackboards is the second film from Samira Makhmalbaf, daughter of acclaimed filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, and is a stark and austere depiction of life after the Iran-Iraq war. It follows a group of displaced Kurdish teachers who travel through the mountains of Halabcheh, a border city in Iraq, with blackboards strapped to their backs, offering their services as educators and fellow refugees. The film won the grand jury prize at the 2000 Cannes International Film Festival, and manages to shed light on the aftermath of a highly destructive war on a micro level, as well as explore the idea of survival in general. IRANIAN NEW WAVE: The Makhmalbaf ...
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The President Director Mohsen Makhmalbaf Interview Subscribe to Red Carpet News: http://bit.ly/1s3BQ54 The President Director Mohsen Makhmalbaf talks to Red Carpet News at the 58th BFI London Film Festival 2014. Red Carpet News brings you all the latest Film & Entertainment News. Featuring exclusive content and interviews for Game Of Thrones, Sherlock, Hunger Games, Marvel, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Downton Abbey, Doctor Who and so much more. Visit our homepage at http://www.redcarpetnewstv.com or follow us on Twitter @RedCarpetNewsTV for exclusive daily updates, reviews, photo galleries and more. Don't forget to subscribe and thanks for watching
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Interview by BBC persian with Mohsen Makhmalbaf about the film Testing democracy and the presidential election in Iran
(Film from Iran) A famous Iranian director, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, makes merriment out of mayhem when more than 5,000 wannabes show up for a casting call for 100 actors advertised in a Tehran newspaper. The mass of hopefuls try to push and shove their way in, and a riot ensues. Makamalbaf suspected it, but this truly confirms his hunch that there is a movie star wish in everyone waiting to pounce, if given the chance. The screen tests are his circus, and he is the circus master. Groups of men and women are separately brought in and tested for a part in Makhmalbafs new film, Salam Cinema. He examines their reasons for wanting to act. He commands one to cry. And another, a mute, he tells her to use her disability. The actors are full of dreams and hopes, especially the women who seek self-expres...
Interview on the occasion of the viewing of 'The Gardener/ Bagheban' (2012) on the 42nd IFFR Filmmaker Mohsen Makhmabaf is one of the frontrunners of Iranian post 1979 cinema. For the viewing of his film 'The Gardener' (2012) which he made together with his son Maysam, he was on the 42nd International Filmfestival Rotterdam. There we interviewed them.About his film which was made in and around a Bahai Garden in Haifa. Short Bio: Mohsen Makhmalbaf was born in 1957. Was imprisoned under the regime of the former Shah. Became a proponent of the Iranian revolution and was one of the fist filmmakers that could film under Islamic regime. He was the writer of some 30 books, maker of some 20 highly acclaimed films and teacher in his own Makhmalbaf Teheran Film school. Through the years he bec...
Filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf is one of the frontrunners of Iranian post 1979 cinema. For the viewing of his film ‘The Gardener’ (2012) which he made together with his son Maysam, he was on the 42nd International Filmfestival Rotterdam. There we interviewed them on their film made in Israel in the Bahai Garden of Haifa and on their country Iran. The production and the interview are by Ronald Glasbergen. The camera and editing are by Rick Messemaker and Rolf Versteegh. See for a closer look also the short biography at http://www.grazen.nl/?p=6520
Part1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWm_z7T76WM محسن مخملباف: حکومت کودتا روز جمعه نمی تواند مردمی را که به نماز جمعه می روند سرکوب کند، چرا که اعتبار دینی لطمه خورده اش در جهان اسلام، کاملا از دست خواهد رفت Mohsen Makhmalbaf, famous Iranian film director, writer, editor, and producer, currently the president of the Asian Film Academy, speaking about the recent developments in Iran, the Green movement and this Friday Prayers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohsen_Makhmalbaf
Iranian film-maker Mohsen Makhmalbaf on his relationship with Israel Subscribe to the Guardian HERE: http://bitly.com/UvkFpD Mohsen Makhmalbaf, one of Iran's most famous directors, speaks to the Guardian after returning from a controversial trip to the Jerusalem film festival. The 57-year-old was condemned for the visit in a letter by a group of Iranian intellectuals, a fact he says evidences a 'cancer' in the relationship between Israel and Iran. Makhmalaf describes his reception by Israelis at the festival as 'amazing'
Interview by BBC persian with Mohsen Makhmalbaf about the film Testing democracy and the presidential election in Iran
Mohsen Makhmalbaf talking about 25 Bahman.