Makhmalbaf Film House Productions Movies

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    11’09”01—September 11

    11’09”01—September 11

    11’09”01—September 11

    MOVIE

    Filmmakers from all over the world provide short films – each of which is eleven minutes, nine seconds, and one frame of film in length – that offer d...

    11’09”01—September 11
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    The Silence

    The Silence

    The Silence

    MOVIE

    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 an...

    The Silence
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    Kandahar

    Kandahar

    Kandahar

    MOVIE

    After an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she takes a perilous journey through Afghanistan to tr...

    Kandahar
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    The Apple

    The Apple

    The Apple

    MOVIE

    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...

    The Apple
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    Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame

    Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame

    Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame

    MOVIE

    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...

    Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame
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    Blackboards

    Blackboards

    Blackboards

    MOVIE

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

    Blackboards
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    At Five in the Afternoon

    At Five in the Afternoon

    At Five in the Afternoon

    MOVIE

    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 Akhtar,...

    At Five in the Afternoon
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    The Day I Became a Woman

    The Day I Became a Woman

    The Day I Became a Woman

    MOVIE

    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 of...

    The Day I Became a Woman
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    Here Children Do Not Play Together

    Here Children Do Not Play Together

    Here Children Do Not Play Together

    MOVIE

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

    Here Children Do Not Play Together
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    The President

    The President

    The President

    MOVIE

    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 begins a journe...

    The President
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    Scream of the Ants

    Scream of the Ants

    Scream of the Ants

    MOVIE

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

    Scream of the Ants
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    Joy of Madness

    Joy of Madness

    Joy of Madness

    MOVIE

    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 the Tali...

    Joy of Madness
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    Stray Dogs

    Stray Dogs

    Stray Dogs

    MOVIE

    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, t...

    Stray Dogs
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    The Nights of Zayandeh-Rood

    The Nights of Zayandeh-Rood

    The Nights of Zayandeh-Rood

    MOVIE

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

    The Nights of Zayandeh-Rood
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    Two-Legged Horse

    Two-Legged Horse

    Two-Legged Horse

    MOVIE

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

    Two-Legged Horse
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    Time of Love

    Time of Love

    Time of Love

    MOVIE

    Three episodes, all with relatively similar plots about a love triangle between a woman and two men.

    Time of Love
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    Afghan Alphabet

    Afghan Alphabet

    Afghan Alphabet

    MOVIE

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

    Afghan Alphabet
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    Sex & Philosophy

    Sex & Philosophy

    Sex & Philosophy

    MOVIE

    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 ea...

    Sex & Philosophy
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    Marghe and Her Mother

    Marghe and Her Mother

    Marghe and Her Mother

    MOVIE

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

    Marghe and Her Mother
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    Green Days

    Green Days

    Green Days

    MOVIE

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

    Green Days