Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Film director
1957 –
Who is Mohsen Makhmalbaf?
Mohsen Makhmalbaf is an acclaimed Iranian film director, writer, film editor, and producer. He has made more than 20 feature films, won some 50 awards and been a jury in more than 15 major film festivals. His award-winning films include Kandahar, and his latest film is the The Gardener.
Makhmalbaf's films have been widely presented at international film festivals in the past ten years. The director belongs to the new wave movement of Iranian cinema. Time magazine selected Makhmalbaf's 2001 film Kandahar as one of the top 100 films of all time. In 2006, he was a member of the Jury at the Venice film festival.
Makhmalbaf left Iran in 2005 shortly after the election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and has lived in Paris since the events of the 2009 Iranian presidential election.
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- Born
- May 29, 1957
Tehran - Also known as
- Mohsen Makhmalbaaf
- Spouses
- Marzieh Meshkini
- Fatemeh Meshkini
( - 1992)
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Iranian peoples
- Nationality
- Iran
- Profession
- Lived in
- Tehran
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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