Samira Makhmalbaf

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Samira Makhmalbaf ( Persian سميرا مخملباف[ sæmiːˈrɔː mæxmælˈbɔːf ]; * February 15, 1980 in Tehran , Iran ) is an Iranian film director and screenwriter . She is a daughter of the Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf .

life and work

As a teenager, she took the opportunity to study film at an Iranian private school and, in the meantime, to make two short films, Desert and Art Schools . At the age of 17 she worked as an assistant director to her father Mohsen Makhmalbaf on his film Die Stille , which came out in 1998. Practically in the same year she made her first feature film, The Apple . This was invited to more than a hundred film festivals around the world and was also distributed in more than 30 countries, so that it was shown in cinemas. He took part in the 1998 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard series.

In 2000 she was the youngest competitor of all time with Black Boards (also: The Black Board ) in Cannes and was awarded a prize by the jury. In between she took part in a joint effort , the film 11'09 ″ 01 - September 11 (11 directors, 11 films, 11 minutes, 9 seconds + 1 frame!) Together with internationally known filmmakers such as Claude Lelouch , Youssef Chahine , Idrissa Ouédraogo , Ken Loach , Alejandro González Iñárritu , Amos Gitai , Mira Nair , Sean Penn , Shōhei Imamura .

In 2003 she won the special prize of the jury there at five o'clock in the afternoon . She shot this poetic and realistic feature film about a family in Afghanistan after the Taliban exclusively with amateur actors . And Samira's younger sister Hana made a documentary about the difficulties of getting them to work at all.

Samira Makhmalbaf also wrote the screenplay herself for Schwarze Tafeln and for five o'clock in the afternoon .

For her last film Two-legged horse , Samira, like most of the screenplays in recent years, was not given a filming permit in Iran. This is how the film was made in Afghanistan in 2007, but the shooting was the target of a bomb attack - in front of the camera. However, Samira was not intimidated, moved the shooting to another location and finished the film. And again, Hana Makhmalbaf documented her sister's work in Samira and non-professional actors .

Since 1998 Samira has been the youngest member of the jury at numerous renowned film festivals around the world, including Cannes, Venice, Berlin and Locarno. In 2004 Samira Makhmalbaf was voted one of the 40 best directors in the world by the Guardian .

Filmography

  • The apple ( Sib ), 1998
  • Black tablets ( Takhté siah ), 2000
  • 11'09''01 - September 11, single film Iran , 2002
  • Five o'clock in the afternoon ( Panj é asr ), 2003
  • Two-legged horse ( Asbe du-pa ) (2008)

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Samira. In: Makhmalbaf Film House. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Makhmalbaf, Samira
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Makhmalbaf, Samireh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Tehran , Iran