He was natural around the unfortunate personal within southern Tehran. He got to operate from either a period he was eight years old, & prior to he was 17 years old, he changed his act Long dozen days. Prior to a Islamic revolution in Iran, he was a political militant & because of that he was jailed for extra than Iv years, & was let away from jailhouse simply when a revolution. Fallowing a revolution he abandoned politics, because he got believed that a principal condition around Iran was a ethnical 1. Thus he began writing & making films. Now he has too published Xxvii books, several of which keep around already been translated around extra than decade languages. A bit of of his films keep close at hand been shown within extra than Xl countries.

In a period of the endure 5 years he has as well taught cinema to his personal members, world health organization keep around already processed Hexad films. Marziyeh Meshkini, his wife, gained xiii international prizes for her film known as The Day I Became a Woman, and his girl Samira received the jury's prize at a Cannes film festival in France, 2000. His immature girl Hana Makhmalbaf has also mass produced her number 1 film Joy of Madness 2003. For his productive instructing method, Boston University gave him its Special Prize in the season 2000.

Makhmalbaf too founded the non-governmental organization for enabling Afghan babies to go to school inside Iran; by means of changes inside Iranian laws due to his campaigns, he succeeded witharound sending tens of hundreds to thousands of Afghan children to schools in Iran.

inside todays world he swallow his personal in Kabul, the capital city of Afghanistan. He is helping to build schools & hospitals there & has likewise helped an Afghan director within producing the motion picture. His girl Samirthe has as well directed a film inside Afghanistan called At Five in the Afternoon.

His films (written and directed by him)

Boycott (1985) The Street Vendor (1986) The Bicyclist (1987) The Marriage of the Nice People (1988) The Turn of Falling in Love (1990) The Nights of Zayande-rood (1990) Naser-ed-din Shah, a Film Actor (1991) Actor (1992) Hello Cinema (1994) Gabbeh* (1995) Bread and Flower-pot (retitled Moment of Innocence for anglophone audiences) (1995) The Silence (1997) Test of Democracy (1999), with Farrokh-yar Kandahar (movie) (2001), brought him the Federico Fellini Prize From Unesco in Paris in 2001

His banned films in Iran

The Turn of Falling in Love (1990), since 1990 The Nights of Zayande-rood (1990), since 1990 Bread and Flower-pot (1995), from 1995 until 1997 The Silence (1997), from 1997 until 2000 Naser-ed-din Shah, a Film Actor (1991), from either 1992 until 1993

Films, in which he appeared (playing himself)

The Marriage of Nice People (1988), made by himself Close-up (1988), made by Abbas Kiarostami Hello Cinema (1994), made by himself Bread and Flower-pot (1995), made by himself The Test of Democracy (1999), made by him & Farrokh-yar

Sources
''This article 1st appeared in the Irana Esperantisto (Iranian Esperantist): Vidi kaj ne Vidi (To Understand & does'nt to See), by A.R. Mamduhi, No. Iii, Month Two, Spring 2003, 32 pp., pp. Three-Five. Its sources come:''