(indieWIRE: 12.09.02) — At only 18, Samira Makhmalbaf (daughter of famed Iranian master Mohsen) directed one of the most auspicious film debuts of the ’90s, “The Apple,” a trenchant account of two ...

PARIS -- Six actors and crew members working on Iranian filmmaker Samira Makhmalbaf's latest project, "Two Legged Horse," were injured this week when a bomb exploded on the film's set in Afghanistan.

Samira Makhmalbaf said she’s determined to finish “The Two-Legged Horse,” despite the March 27 bombing that brought lensing to a halt. At a press conference here Friday, Iranian helmer Makhmalbaf was ...

On the cruel road.In Kurdish, with English subtitles. Running time: 85 minutes. Not rated (nothing objectionable). At the Quad, 13th Street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues. THE poetic, heartbreaking ...

When a young woman without a veil walks down a street in Afghanistan, an old man passing by turns to face the wall and chant a prayer for forgiveness. For him, just seeing a woman's face is a sin.

The term “docudrama” has been applied so casually to various television shows that it is now almost without meaning. But “The Apple,” by 19-year-old Iranian filmmaker Samira Makhmalbaf (daughter of ...

Samira Makhmalbaf's latest feature "Two-Legged Horse" is back on track, with production set to resume on the film "quickly," the director and her filmmaker father, Mohsen, who wrote the script, said ...

10 people - Nicole Mowbray on a precocious director whose films speak for oppressed women everywhere By Nicole Mowbray Samira Makhmalbaf has been likened to Sofia Coppola. Both are young and ...

Made with the assistance of her father, Mohsen, one of Iran's most successful directors, the eighteen year old (yes, EIGHTEEN!) Samira Makhmalbaf creates a part fictionalised documentary, similar to ...