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‘Poet of the Wastes’ directed by Mohammad Ahmadi has been accepted in the main category in Chicago and Pusan Film Festival. This film was made based on a film script by the same name written by Mohsen Makhmalbaf.

 
'Stray Dogs' directed by Marziyeh Meshkiny was accepted in the Venice Film Festival 2004 competition. 'Stray Dogs' is Marziyeh Meshkiny's second feature film. Her first feature film, 'The Day I Became A Woman' was also screened in the Critics Week of the Venice Film Festival 2000 and it...

Marziyeh Meshkiny, wife of the renowned Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, was born in Tehran in 1969. She learnt filmmaking at Makhmalbaf Film House, and gained valuable experience working as assistant director on Samira Makhmalbaf’s films “The Apple”, “The Blackboard”, “At...

 
The movie ‘Stray Dogs’ made by Marziyeh Meshkiny, which was the sole representative of the Iranian cinema in the main competition section of the Venice Film Festival 2004, has won two international awards:

1. The Silver Camera Award (for cultural and artistic communications...

 
Starting July 16 ‘At Five in the Afternoon’ directed by Samira Makhmalbaf will be shown in theaters in 14 German cities. This is the first time an Iranian motion picture is widely being shown throughout Germany. Samira will take a 3-day visit there on July 13th to attend press interviews...

 
This year karlovy Vary the most reputable film festival in Czechoslovakia will be showing the films ‘Apple’, ‘Blackboard’ and ‘At Five in the Afternoon’ by Samira Makhmalbaf in view of a program entitled Tribute to Samira Makhmalbaf. The festival will be held from 2nd to10th July 2004...

 
Osian's - Cinefan, the Asian Film Festival held on July 16-25 in a tribute to Makhmalbaf family will be showing the films Time of Love and Once Upon a Time Cinema by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, The Day I Became a Woman by Marziyeh Meshkiny, Blackboards by Samira Makhmalbaf, How Samira Made the...

Mohsen Makhmalbaf whose recent script ‘Amnesia’ was published in the Iranian press has asked Mohammad Ahmadi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb to direct two of his other scripts titled ‘Poet of the Wastes’ and ‘The Day the Earthquake Strikes Tehran’. Both these scripts were first written in 2003 and have...

 
 
Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s next two feature films will be shot in India and Tajikistan. Mohsen Makhmalbaf who after Kandahar intended to make the film ‘Amnesia’ in Iran will be making his next two films in India and Tajikistan. Amnesia was refused shooting in Iran due to rising problems...

“Amnesia”, the script written by Mohsen Makhmalbaf and submitted to the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance in early 2004 was officially refused permit to be made into a motion picture by the said Ministry on Tuesday May 4, 2004.
 
The idea of the script reflecting two decades...

‘At Five in the Afternoon’, Samira Makhmalbaf’s third feature film received the “Youths’ Cinema” Award in Singapore’s 17th International Silver Screen Film Festival.

‘At Five in the Afternoon’ had previously won the Special Jury Prize and the World Churches Grand Prize in the 2003 Cannes...

 
Here come the Makhmalbafs. Are they geniuses or is it down to dad, asks Hannah McGill

Iranian House Style - Feature Article  
Sight & Sound April 2004

Samira Makhmalbaf's third feature At Five in the Afternoon confirms her...

 
The 54th Berlin International Film Festival which is held in Berlin every year announced the names of the jury in this year’s festival. Samira Makhmalbaf, the Iranian filmmaker has been mentioned to be among the jury.