(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 ...

Hana Makhmalbaf narrowly evaded two kidnap attempts during the Kabul shoot of Samira’s “At Five in the Afternoon” in 2002. That pic earned Samira her second Jury Prize at Cannes.

Samira herself narrates, in excellent English, explaining that she was born into a filmmaking family (her father, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, is one of Iran’s leading directors) and that she had “acted ...

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 ...

The House consists of Makhmalbaf, his wife, Marzieh Meshkini, and his children, Samira, Maysam and Hana. Everyone is a filmmaker in his or her own right, and all have worked with director Mohsen.

Two-Legged Horse The line between dramatizing physical abuse and causing genuine physical harm to actors looks to have been crossed in Samira Makhmalbaf's repellent "Two-Legged Horse." Written by ...

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.

“Two Legged Horse” is directed by Samira Makhmalbaf, a two-time winner of the Cannes Jury Prize, and written by her father Mohsen, also an award-winning director in his own right.

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 ...

Mohsen Makhmalbaf and his family have had a rough few months. The March 27 bomb attack on the Afghan set of daughter Samira Makhmalbaf's "Two-Legged Horse" only narrowly avoided killing any of the ...

San Sebastian Film Festival A starving urchin is transformed into an animal ridden by a rich boy with no legs in Samira Makhmalbaf’s wantonly cruel “Two-Legged Horse.” This allegory about ...