(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 ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Samira Makhmalbaf is talking. Well, reciting would be closer to the truth. She sits straight-backed, showing me her profile: chin up, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shooting on Two-Legged Horse, Samira Makhmalbaf's latest feature, will resume soon in an undisclosed location, she announced at Cannes. Her first feature in five years came to an abrupt end on March ...

Samira Makhmalbaf's "At Five in the Afternoon" takes the viewer on a harsh, at times poetic journey into the heart of Afghanistan today, with pic serving as both an impassioned demand for women's ...

The extraordinary Young Iranian director Samira Makhmalbaf is back and holding center stage yet again in the 56th Cannes Film Festival with her film "At Five in the Afternoon", a simple, but powerful ...

Born in Tehran, Samira is the daughter of director Mohsen Makhmalbaf. She got her first taste of the cinema when she was eight, playing a cameo role as a little girl in her father's film The Cyclist ...

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.

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