Hana Makhmalbaf

A Moment of Innocence

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Mirhadi Tayebi, Mohsen Makhmalbaf

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 decades later, he tracks down the policeman he injured in an attempt to make amends.

Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame

Hana Makhmalbaf

Habbas Alijome, Abdolali Huseinali

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 boy who takes her to his school is thrown out by the teacher, because helping her prevented him from arriving in time. On her way home she and other girls are taken as prisoners by boys playing as Taliban fighters. They tear her school book to pieces and threaten to stone their female captives.

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Hana Makhmalbaf

Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Samira Makhmalbaf

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 Taliban regime. Everything was recorded with a small digital camera by Samira's 14-year-old sister Hana.

Green Days

Hana Makhmalbaf

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

Samira cheghoneh 'Takhté siah' rol sakht

Maysam Makhmalbaf

Samira Makhmalbaf, Maysam Makhmalbaf

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 she was one months old and crying in her mothers arms, while acting in a feature movie made by his father up to her first conscious appearance as an 8 year old child actor in the movie Cyclist made by his father in Pakistan. From when Samira made her first movie Apple at 17 or when she goes to visit the two imprisoned girls in the movie "Apple" and when she is occupied with changing the professional actor of the movie "Blackboard" with a non-professional actor (ordinary people) and even when she was attending the Cannes Film Festival in the years 1998 and 2000.