Mohsen Makhmalbaf Movies

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...

At the age of 74, many people retire themselves or go and spend the rest of their life in elderly’s house. But Kim Dong-Ho has made the...

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...

A wealthy boy hires a poor child to carry him around like a horse.

In Iran-Iraq's war, a young scout joins the front-line to help his comrades single-handed.

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

22-year-old Claudia is a single mother who lives with Marghe, her six year-old precocious daughter. When Claudia is kicked out of her house for...

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

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...

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, which...

During the time of the Pahlavi Dynasty - the ruling House of Iran - the US President Richard Nixon is about to visit Tehran, but a violent armed...

A female election agent and a gun-toting soldier try to collect votes among the local islanders with mixed success.

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...