Samira Makhmalbaf

Iranian film director and screenwriter

0.42body-of-work score · ranked #1518 of 2640 directors · 2 films in our library

A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.

Born
February 15, 1980 · Tehran
Nationality
Iran
Directing career
5 directorial credits, 1998–2008 · first: The Apple (1998) · latest: Two-Legged Horse (2008)
Work
film director, screenwriter, film producer, director
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Samira Makhmalbaf
BBC Persian · CC BY 3.0

Films in our library, ranked

Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.

  1. 1
    The Appleسیب

    1998 · Iran / France · drama

    Sarris's annual top 10 1998 #null · Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema

    0.262 citations
  2. 2
    Blackboardsتخته سیاه‎

    2000 · Japan / Iran / Italy · war, drama

    Sarris's annual top 10 2002 #7

    0.171 citation

Complete filmography

All 5 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.

  • 1998The Apple
  • 2000Blackboards
  • 200211'09"01 September 11
  • 2003At Five in the Afternoon
  • 2008Two-Legged Horse
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