Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Mohsen Makhmalbaf at IFFR

• The Actor

  Tragi-comedy with popular film actor in identity crisis.

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  Scream of the Ants

  The Iranian film master set off for India for this philosophically tinted associative road movie with breathtakingly beautiful shots. An Iranian coupl

  • Maestros: Kings & Aces

• BICYCLERAN/THE CYCLIST
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  Le tableau noir

  Second film by the director of The Apple. Looking for pupils, teachers with blackboards on their backs crisscross the dangerous border area between Ir

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  Tales of an Island

  Trilogy by prominent Iranian film directors situated on the island of Kish. They all play with the genre of the film-within-a-film, in a surreal and p

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  The Gardener

  The Bahá’í faith is one of artistic gardeners. They were driven out of Iran, their birthplace, and found a new home in Israel. What an irony. An Irani

  • Signals: Inside Iran

• Salaam Cinema

  Shocking documentary about film-crazy Iranians who reveal all in a sham audition. If Kiarostami is the Rafael of Iranian Film, then Makhmalbaf is the

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• Once Upon a Time, Cinema

  A film in which all the wonders, dreams and insanity of the whole history of film, and Iranian film in particular, seem to be united. Everything conceivable is also possible: the characters travel back and forth through time and from ‘reality’ to the world of cinema. Once Upon a Time, Cinema is a delight for […]

  • Komedies uit Egypte en Iran

• De stilte

  The blind boy Korshid has a special gift for sounds. He works for an instrument-maker, but on his way to work he is often distracted by sounds. Beauti

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• Een school weggeblazen door de wind

  Drama short by the versatile Iranian film master Makhmalbaf about an old man’s visit to a nomadic government school.

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