Samira Makhmalbaf Movies

Eleven directors from 11 countries each contribute an 11-minute short reflecting on the events of 11 September 2001. A village teacher in Iran tries to explain to her young students…

Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the Iran-Iraq war. Said falls in with…

A father who has a young son with one leg and no other household members must go to India for some weeks. He hires another boy for a dollar a…