Hana Makhmalbaf Movies

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...

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...

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...

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...

A young girl zealously wants to go to school and learn to read and write. Almost everywhere she is met with hostility or indifference. The only young...

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

In post-Taliban Kabul, two lost children, brother and sister whose parents are in prison, try to survive every day by scavenging for food. At night,...

Afghanistan fell into the hands of the Taliban due to the withdrawal of US troops in August 2021. Upon hearing this news in a foreign country, the...

Documentary about Busan International Film Festival founder Kim Dong-ho.

Documentary showing the backstage of production of Samira Makhmalbaf's film Panj É Asr(At Five in the Afternoon), in Kabul, after the fall of...

Documentary showing the life of children of the Afghan villages bordering Iran, and how their life and culture were affected by Taliban regime.

Short film from omnibus 'Beautiful 2015,' commissioned for the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society.

A playwright Iran tries to confront a creative crisis while political clashes erupt during her country's 2009 election.

When Hana’s aunt goes to the hospital to have a nose job, grandpa comes to take care of the kids. The kids go play in the alley, but to be on...

The film and camera of Maysam Mkhamlbaf, Samira's brother follows her like an invisible eye. From her first subconscious presence as an actor, when...

It is a story of a unique family in the world; A documentary on how a former political imprisoned revolutionary in a religious closed society like...

About the difficult situation of pets inside of Iran.