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Vesoul International Festival in France on February 10th 2009 while holding a tribute to and screening of 18 films by the Makhmalbaf Film House will be awarding the Golden Bicycle prize to Mohsen Makhmalbaf for creating valuable cinematic works. This will mark the one hundredth prize...

 
The NDTV Television Network in India concurrently with the closing of the Kerala Film Festival announced that it will distribute Samira Makhmalbaf’s films the Blackboard, At Five in the Afternoon and her latest film Two-Legged Horse in India as DVD format.

The said three films...

 
Samira Makhmalbaf will attend the 13th Kerala Film festival in India. This festival which is held every year from December 12-19 will focus on films from South America, Africa and Asia this year in its main competition section.

Also, a tribute will be paid to Samira Makhmalbaf...

 
Two Legged Horse, Samira Makhmalbaf’s latest film received the Special Mention Prize in Rome’s 9th Asian Films Festival for its originality as mentioned in the board of jury statement.

Two Legged Horse was screened three times in this festival which is held from November 15-23...

Poland’s 15th Festival of European Film Schools in its opening ceremony granted its special Golden Dinosaur prize to Mohsen Makhmalbaf for founding the Makhmalbaf Film School as an independent and creative approach in world cinema. The European Film Schools Festival which is held in Krakow this...

 
A tribute to Samira Makhmalbaf was held in the Women’s World Festival in Germany’s University city of Tuebingen with the screenings of her films Apple, the Blackboard, 11 September, How Samira Made the Blackboard (behind-the-scene of the Blackboard by Maysam Makhmalbaf) Joy of Madness (...

 
Buddha Collapsed out of Shame received three awards from Ukraine’s Molodist International Film festival.

Hana Makhmalbaf, the director of the feature film Buddha Collapsed out of Shame received the Molodist Film festival’s grand prize, the Golden Deer, awarded to the best film...

 
Samira Makhmalbaf from Iran together with juries from England, Germany, France and Brazil will attend the 32nd Sao Paolo International Film festival as jury. The board of juries of this festival officially began work with the holding of their first press conference on October 25th. Also...

 
Norway’s Oslo Films from the South Festival grants its first prize "The Silver Mirror" to Hana Makhmalbaf’s "The Buddha Collapsed out of Shame".

"Buddha…" also received 100,000 Kroners for its Norwegian distributor. The jury at the time of granting Hana’s award made stated that...

 
The Ghent International Film Festival granted its best soundtrack award (titled after Georges Delerue the British composer for the film Man for all Seasons) to the film "Two Legged Horse".

This festival held every year from October 7th to 18th opened this year with its recurring...

Ghent International Film Festival, which takes place every October in Belgium, has invited Samira Makhmalbaf’s "Two-Legged Horse" to compete in its 35th official edition.

Earlier this year, Two-Legged Horse went on screen in Toronto International film Festival, Official Competition of...

 
Samira Makhmalbaf, Director of Two-Legged Horse, received the "Grand Jury Prize" from the 56th San Sebastian International Film Festival. This is the fifth award for Makhmalbaf family from Spain during the last one year.

San Sebastian International film Festival takes place from...

Seville Picture Company, the Canadian distributor for Samira Makhmalbaf's 'Two Legged Horse' announced at the closing of Toronto Film Festival that the film will go on screen in Canada with a start of the New Year.

The beginning of the New Year marks the busiest season for movie goers...