16 Facts About Samira Makhmalbaf

Samira Makhmalbaf is an Iranian filmmaker and screenwriter.

Samira Makhmalbaf is the daughter of Mohsen Makhmalbaf, the film director and writer.

Samira Makhmalbaf is considered to be part of the Iranian New Wave.

Samira Makhmalbaf has won multiple awards, including two Jury Prizes at the Cannes Film Festival, and has been nominated for numerous awards.

Samira Makhmalbaf was born 15 February 1980 in Tehran to filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf.

Samira Makhmalbaf joined her father on his film sets as a child and watched him edit afterwards.

Samira Makhmalbaf left high school when she was 14 years old to study cinema in the Samira Makhmalbaf Film House for five years.

At the age of 17, after directing two video productions, Samira Makhmalbaf went on to direct her first feature film, La Pomme.

Samira Makhmalbaf has been the winner and nominee for numerous awards.

Samira Makhmalbaf was nominated twice for Golden Palm of Cannes Film Festival for Takhte siah and Panj e asr.

Samira Makhmalbaf won Prix du Jury of Cannes for both films in 2001 and 2003, respectively.

Samira Makhmalbaf's films followed applied the doc-fiction hybrid aesthetic of her father's earlier work.

Samira Makhmalbaf's films have been known to follow a theme of progress and change.

Samira Makhmalbaf gave me three or four pages, and then it was time to imagine it.

When Samira Makhmalbaf was born, we'd take her to the radio station.

Samira Makhmalbaf has been a great activist for women's rights almost all her life.