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Cannes 2023 :: Killers of the Flower Moon :: Martin Scorsese’s Bitterest Crime Epic Martin Scorsese triumphs yet again. A story about greed, corruption, and the mottled soul of a country that was born from the belief that it belonged to anyone callous enough to take it.. |
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Berlinale 2023 :: Full Winners List This year’s jury, headed by Kristen Stewart, gave
the Golden Bear award to the French documentary “On the Adamant..” The Silver Bear for
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BAFTA 2023 :: ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’
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Berlinale 2023 :: Golshifteh Farahani :: Talks Role Of
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SIFF 2023 :: Shirin Ebadi :: Until We Are Free
This is the amazing, at times harrowing,
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IFFR 2023 Awards :: 'Le spectre de Boko Haram' and
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Winners of the 2022 ‘Sepanta Awards’ :: 15th Annual
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festival presented 50 films from Iran, USA, Italy, France, Luxembourg, Greece, UK, Canada,
Australia, and Denmark…, ranging from fiction, documentary, short, animation…. to the
music video.. |
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Opinion :: Will Venice Protests Help or Hurt filmmakers
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Biennale Cinema 2022 :: Awards Ceremony
Official Awards of the 79th Venice Film Festival.
Announced by the five international Juries, chaired by Julianne Moore, during the Awards
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Coming: 15th Annual Iranian Film Festival! : San
Francisco: Sep. 17-18 This year, the
festival presents 50 films from Iran, USA, Italy, France, Luxembourg, Greece, UK, Canada,
Australia, and Denmark…, ranging from fiction, documentary, short, animation…. to the
music video. We are happy and proud to.. |
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Makhmalbaf, Samira |
Date of birth
15 February 1980, Teheran, Iran
Samira Makhmalbaf (February 15, 1980, Teheran, Iran)
Samira Makhmalbaf is the daughter of Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf. She got her first taste of the cinema when she was eight, playing a cameo role as a little gypsy girl in her father’s The Cyclist (1988).
After leaving school at 15 because she found the teachers incompetent, she began learning to make movies, mostly by watching and assisting her father but also in a film course at a private school.
She directed two short videos, a drama entitled Desert and a documentary entitled Style in Painting.
Last year she worked as an assistant to her father on his latest film The Silence (Le silence), which was shown at 1998 Montreal World Film Festival.
“As best you can, love, hope and be patient. And maybe to suffer is not bad. We must have sadness and grief because we are alive.
We must endure hardness. That is the best there is. To know you are very small and life is very difficult and it is all beautiful, beautiful, beautiful… because you are alive.”
Her latest films are Takhteh Siah (The Blackboard) which won the second prize in Cannes Film Festival and Sib (The Apple) which has been a hit so far at many international film festivals.
She was also the youngest member of the jury at Locarno International Film Festival in 1998.
Selected filmography of
Makhmalbaf, Samira
2008
Two-Legged Horse | Asbe du-pa (2008)
2003
At Five In The Afternoon | Panje Asr (2004)
2000
Blackboards | Takhte siah | Lavagne (2000)
1998
The Apple | Sib | La Pomme (1998)
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