Mohsen Makhmalbaf Movies
- 2024
Here Children Do Not Play Together
Here Children Do Not Play Together02024HD
To examine the deteriorating relations between Palestine and Israel following the Hamas attack on October 7, the director walks into the heart of...
- 1990
Close-Up
Close-Up7.91990HD
This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the...
- 2002
11’09”01—September 11
11’09”01—September 116.52002HD
Filmmakers from all over the world provide short films – each of which is eleven minutes, nine seconds, and one frame of film in length –...
- 2004
Osama
Osama6.9542004HD
After the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the restriction of women in public life, a preteen girl is forced to masquerade as a boy in order to...
- 1996
A Moment of Innocence
A Moment of Innocence7.71996HD
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. Two...
- 2001
Kandahar
Kandahar6.2072001HD
After an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she takes a perilous journey through Afghanistan to...
- 1998
The Silence
The Silence6.3751998HD
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 as...
- 1996
Gabbeh
Gabbeh6.6231996HD
An elderly couple go about their routine of cleaning their gabbeh, while bickering gently with each other. Magically, a young woman appears, helping...
- 2000
Blackboards
Blackboards6.62000HD
Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during...
- 2014
The President
The President6.92014HD
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...
- 2009
Two-Legged Horse
Two-Legged Horse5.62009HD
A wealthy boy hires a poor child to carry him around like a horse.
- 1995
Salaam Cinema
Salaam Cinema6.31995HD
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...
- 2000
The Day I Became a Woman
The Day I Became a Woman6.12000HD
A girl reaches the age of nine and is supposed to act as a grown woman according to her family. A girl participates in a bike race against the will...
- 2007
Scream of the Ants
Scream of the Ants5.22007HD
A girl believing in God marries an atheist, who is consumed by doubt. They decide to spend their honeymoon in India...
- 1998
The Apple
The Apple6.2551998HD
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...
- 1989
The Cyclist
The Cyclist6.6381989HD
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...
- 1992
Once Upon a Time, Cinema
Once Upon a Time, Cinema6.31992HD
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 magically...
- 2005
Sex & Philosophy
Sex & Philosophy6.82005HD
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 summon...
- 2003
At Five in the Afternoon
At Five in the Afternoon6.42003HD
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...
- 1992
Images from the Ghajar Dynasty
Images from the Ghajar Dynasty5.31992HD
Directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf.