Movies: Makhmalbaf Film House Productions

  • 2002
    11’09”01—September 11

    11’09”01—September 11 (2002)

    11’09”01—September 11

    6.42002HD

    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 differing perspectives on the 9/11 terrorist attacks....

    11’09”01—September 11
  • 1998
    The Apple

    The Apple (1998)

    The Apple

    6.31998HD

    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 first time....

    The Apple
  • 2001
    Kandahar

    Kandahar (2001)

    Kandahar

    6.22001HD

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

    Kandahar
  • 2000
    Blackboards

    Blackboards (2000)

    Blackboards

    6.62000HD

    Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the Iran-Iraq war. Said falls in with a group of old men looking for their bombed-out village; he offer...

    Blackboards
  • 2003
    At Five in the Afternoon

    At Five in the Afternoon (2003)

    At Five in the Afternoon

    6.42003HD

    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, Leylomah is most concerned with how to feed her baby. She cannot provide milk for her baby as her o...

    At Five in the Afternoon
  • 2009
    Two-Legged Horse

    Two-Legged Horse (2009)

    Two-Legged Horse

    5.62009HD

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

    Two-Legged Horse
  • 2007
    Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame

    Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame (2007)

    Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame

    7.22007HD

    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...

    Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame
  • 2005
    Sex & Philosophy

    Sex & Philosophy (2005)

    Sex & Philosophy

    6.82005HD

    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 each of his four lovers, who are unaware of each other, to join him at the dance studio where we assum...

    Sex & Philosophy
  • 2014
    The President

    The President (2014)

    The President

    6.92014HD

    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 journey to discover his country in the company of his five-year-old grandson. The two travel across the la...

    The President
  • 1998
    The Silence

    The Silence (1998)

    The Silence

    6.41998HD

    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 instrument tuner even though he runs the risk of being fired at a time when his family is in danger...

    The Silence
  • 2024
    Here Children Do Not Play Together

    Here Children Do Not Play Together (2024)

    Here Children Do Not Play Together

    02024HD

    To examine the deteriorating relations between Palestine and Israel following the Hamas attack on October 7, the director walks into the heart of Jerusalem, a city that has been a holy site for Judaism, Islam, and Christianity for centuries, where te...

    Here Children Do Not Play Together
  • 2000
    The Day I Became a Woman

    The Day I Became a Woman (2000)

    The Day I Became a Woman

    6.12000HD

    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 her husband. An elderly woman decides she wants to buy all the things she always wanted but could n...

    The Day I Became a Woman
  • 2013
    Ongoing Smile

    Ongoing Smile (2013)

    Ongoing Smile

    0.52013HD

    Documentary about Busan International Film Festival founder Kim Dong-ho....

    Ongoing Smile
  • 2012
    The Gardener

    The Gardener (2012)

    The Gardener

    5.22012HD

    An Iranian filmmaker and his son travel to Haifa, Israel to investigate a religion that originated a hundred and seventy years ago. Youth from all over come to Haifa to join this religion, and those who serve in the gardens that surround the holy plac...

    The Gardener
  • 1990
    The Nights of Zayandeh-Rood

    The Nights of Zayandeh-Rood (1990)

    The Nights of Zayandeh-Rood

    4.71990HD

    A film about an anthropologist and his daughter during three periods: before, during, and after the Iranian Revolution. The daughter works in the accident & emergency department of a hospital, which is never empty of suicidal patients. The reason beh...

    The Nights of Zayandeh-Rood
  • 2004
    Joy of Madness

    Joy of Madness (2004)

    Joy of Madness

    5.82004HD

    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....

    Joy of Madness
  • 2004
    Stray Dogs

    Stray Dogs (2004)

    Stray Dogs

    7.32004HD

    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, they join their imprisoned mother....

    Stray Dogs
  • 1991
    Time of Love

    Time of Love (1991)

    Time of Love

    4.81991HD

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

    Time of Love
  • 2007
    Scream of the Ants

    Scream of the Ants (2007)

    Scream of the Ants

    5.22007HD

    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
  • 2002
    Afghan Alphabet

    Afghan Alphabet (2002)

    Afghan Alphabet

    6.22002HD

    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